作者: Michael K. Tanenhaus

Thomas G. Bever’s now iconic sentence, The horse raced past the barn fell, first appeared in his 1970 paper "The Cognitive Basis of Linguistic Structures". This ‘garden path sentence’, so-c …

The most frequently used words in English are highly ambiguous; for example, Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary lists 94 meanings for the word "run" as a verb alone. Yet people rarel …

How people refer to objects in the world, how people comprehend reference, and how children acquire an understanding of and an ability to use reference.This volume brings together contributions by pr …