Sentence judgment tasks are used often in linguistics studies. However, there is no consensus on how significant the effect of instruction such tasks: some argue that trivial, while others they affect way participants respond. In this study, we investigate different keywords sentence and determine which keyword best teases apart speakers' response to semantically pragmatically licit illicit sen...

This paper 1 describes work in progress concerning the semantic and pragmatic interpretation of utterances in human-computer natural language information dialogues, as developed in the ELTA project at Tilburg University. This project aims at developing and applying an integrated approach to semantic and pragmatic interpretation of dialogue utterances, where the application is sought in the form...

Grasping requires coding of the object's intrinsic properties (size and shape), and the transformation of these properties into a pattern of distal (finger and wrist) movements. Computational models address this behavior through the interaction of perceptual and motor schemas. In monkeys, the transformation of an object's intrinsic properties into specific grips takes place in a circuit that is...

Extracting meaning from speech requires the use of pragmatic, semantic, and syntactic information. A central question is: Does the processing of these different types of linguistic information have common or distinct neuroanatomical substrates? We addressed this issue using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure neural activity when subjects listened to spoken normal sentences ...

We aimed to disentangle contributions of socio-pragmatic and structural language deficits to narrative competence by comparing the narratives of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD; n = 25), non-autistic children with language impairments (LI; n = 23), and children with typical development (TD; n = 27). Groups were matched for age (6½ to 15 years; mean: 10;6) and non-verbal ability; ASD...