We distinguish diagrammatic from sentential paper-and-pencil representationsof information by developing alternative models of information-processing systems that are informationally equivalent and that can be characterized as sentential or diagrammatic. Sentential representations are sequential

of human sentence comprehension is that of detailing characteristics of the process that assigns coreferential relationships among sentential elements. This paper presents studies examining the temporal course of the assignment of antecedents to both explicit anaphoric elements (such as pronouns

in academic writing, students can learn to perform the same analysis in revising sentences in their own writing and thus can develop their ability to communicate information more effectively. The paper analyzes a scholarly article in psychology to illustrate the kinds of sentential themes that occur

with the central meaning of the verb) causes an increase in processing load during integration of the verb into on-going sentence comprehension. The effect of preceding sentential structural information (varied with respect to the number of argument and/or adjunct NPs preceding the verb) was also manipulated

The research reported in this paper is on the development of sentence coordination in children. At the norent, our focus is on sentences conjoined by "and", based on the consideration that these sentences are the first forms of coordination to appear in child speech

The relevance of a possessor to the information expressed in an utterance has been recognized as a factor in stipulating external possession (EP) constructions, where the possessor seems to be placed on the same level as the possessum (Shibatani 1974; Iordanskaja & Mel’ 1999). This paper

While most first language acquisition research to date focuses on the development of children's linguistic competence, a number of research teams have also investigated the mechanisms children employ to process sentence-and word-level information in real time, by applying experimental

the presence of the ambiguous word. These results provide evidence for a top-down influence of sentential context in retuning abstract lexical/semantic representations, and illustrate how semantic retuning can improve the comprehension of ambiguous words in speech. Ó 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved