Perspectives on Binding and Atomism
The article provides an introduction to Binding Theory and its relation to Atomism
On the Grammar of Referential Dependence
Published in Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric
All forms of nominal reference, whether quantificational, definite, rigid, deictic, or personal, require that the nominals in question appear in relevant grammatical configurations. Reference is in this sense a grammatical phenomenon. It is never determined lexically or a word-world relation in a purely semantic or causal sense. Here it is further ...
Processing the Chinese Reflexive "ziji": Effects of Featural Constraints on Anaphor Resolution.
Published in Frontiers in psychology
We present three self-paced reading experiments that investigate the reflexive ziji "self" in Chinese-in particular, we tested whether and how person-feature-based blocking guides comprehenders' real-time processing and final interpretation of ziji. Prior work claims that in Chinese sentences like "John thought that {I/you/Bill} did not like ZIJI,"...
Aging, Emotion, Attention, and Binding in the Taboo Stroop Task: Data and Theories.
Published in International journal of environmental research and public health
How does aging impact relations between emotion, memory, and attention? To address this question, young and older adults named the font colors of taboo and neutral words, some of which recurred in the same font color or screen location throughout two color-naming experiments. The results indicated longer color-naming response times (RTs) for taboo ...
Aging, Emotion, Attention, and Binding in the Taboo Stroop Task: Data and Theories.
How does aging impact relations between emotion, memory, and attention? To address this question, young and older adults named the font colors of taboo and neutral words, some of which recurred in the same font color or screen location throughout two color-naming experiments. The results indicated longer color-naming response times (RTs) for taboo ...
On her own - Parsimonious Compositionality: Probing Syntax and Semantics with French propre
This dissertation focuses on the French word
On her own - Parsimonious Compositionality: Probing Syntax and Semantics with French propre
This dissertation focuses on the French word propre roughly meaning `characteristic-of' and corresponding to English own found in `her own thesis'. This adjective makes extremely varied and complex contributions to the meaning and properties of sentences it occurs in. The present work addresses the question of how these contributions arise. Parsimo...
On her own - Parsimonious Compositionality: Probing Syntax and Semantics with French propre
This dissertation focuses on the French word
On her own - Parsimonious Compositionality: Probing Syntax and Semantics with French propre
This dissertation focuses on the French word
On her own - Parsimonious Compositionality: Probing Syntax and Semantics with French propre
This dissertation focuses on the French word
