Information status relates to production, distribution, and comprehension

Information status relates to production, distribution, and comprehension

MacDonald’s (2013) paper makes two strong contributions to the psycholinguistics literature, in my opinion. First, it calls for a serious consideration of how cognitive pressures affect production processing, which is a necessary step for the development of mechanistic theories of language use. A second major contribution of the PDC is that it provides a theoretical explanation for the body of ...

Facial Width-To-Height Ratio Relates to Alpha Status and Assertive Personality in Capuchin Monkeys

Social dominance hierarchies play a pivotal role in shaping the behaviour of many species, and sex differences within these hierarchies often exist. To date, however, few physical markers of dominance have been identified. Such markers would be valuable in terms of understanding the etiology of dominant behaviour and changes in social hierarchies over time. Animals may also use such traits to e...

Production and Comprehension of Pantomimes Used to Depict Objects

Pantomime, gesture in absence of speech, has no conventional meaning. Nevertheless, individuals seem to be able to produce pantomimes and derive meaning from pantomimes. A number of studies has addressed the use of co-speech gesture, but little is known on pantomime. Therefore, the question of how people construct and understand pantomimes arises in gesture research. To determine how people use...

Comprehension and validation Running Head: COMPREHENSION AND VALIDATION Comprehension and Validation of Text Information

The Distribution and Comprehension of Implicit Arguments

A core question in linguistics is how expressions are built from functions and their arguments, e.g. verbs and nouns. Generally all of a function’s arguments must be pronounced. Certain arguments may remain implicit (i.e., unpronounced), but only as long as they are recoverable from prior discourse. This project investigates how this recovery procedure is similar to that of determining the ante...