Reference Resolution - Einzelansicht

This course will run asynchronously on Moodle.

This course provides an overview of psycholinguistic approaches to reference resolution, focusing on how we use and interpret different types of noun phrase. Special attention will be paid to the resolution of pronominal elements, which require referential dependencies to be established in order to receive an interpretation. The following specific questions will be addressed: What information sources and constraints determine the selection and interpretation of referentially dependent expressions during language use? What information is encoded lexically or structurally, and what information emerges from pragmatic inferences? How do sentence-level and discourse-level phenomena interact? How do we interpret covert constituents? Is reference resolution accomplished differently during native vs. non-native language comprehension?