The road to understanding is paved with the speaker's intentions: Cues to the speaker's attention and intentions affect pronoun comprehension

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 70, Issue , 2014, Pages 58-81

  Nappa, Rebecca ^a   Arnold, Jennifer E ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Common ground; Language comprehension; Pronoun resolution

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE;

ATTENTION; COMMUNICATION; COMPREHENSION; CUES; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; INTENTION; MALE;

EID: 84894135488     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2013.12.003     Document Type: Article

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