Background Coherence is the quality that distinguishes discourse from a random collection of sentences. People with aphasia have been reported to produce less-coherent than non-language-impaired speakers. It largely unclear how coherence established in natural language and what leads its impairment aphasia.Aims This paper presents cross-methodological investigation on Russian native speakers wi...

Sapir (1921) suggests that Robert Browning’s poetry is “non-linguistic” in the way he uses English language to convey thought. We explore meter of a much criticized example his poetry, “Pietro Abano” (1880), and conclude otherwise. The poem trochaic metre with extensive systematic catalexis, i.e. unrealized metrical constituents possible only at phrase boundaries. show Browning locates even wor...

Extending learned patterns to previously unseen ones is a key hallmark of complex cognition. This paper presents evidence that learners are able to generalize learned patterns to novel stimuli with very different surface properties within and across modalities. Using a statistical learning paradigm, adult learners were exposed to a repetition (reduplication) pattern in which the first element o...

This thesis investigates the bidirectional exchange of information between linguistic and non-linguistic semantic inputs containing ambiguities. Such exchange is critical to Cognitively Complete Systems, in which collections of related representations and processes cooperate for their mutual problem-solving benefit. The exchange paradigm of reconciliation is defined, in which ambiguities and ga...