Pragmatic versus form-based accounts of referential contrast: Evidence for effects of informativity expectations

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 3-23

  Sedivy, Julie C ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse context; Eyetracking; Nominal modifier; Pragmatic knowledge; Referential contrast

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS;

COGNITION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS;

EID: 0037944172     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021928914454     Document Type: Conference Paper

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