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View article: Are second language speakers more pragmatically tolerant? Explaining the differences in scalar implicature generation between L2 and L1
Are second language speakers more pragmatically tolerant? Explaining the differences in scalar implicature generation between L2 and L1 Open
Children’s difficulties with Scalar Implicature (SI) generation have been argued to stem from their tolerance towards pragmatic violations rather than from issues with the inferential process per se (Katsos & Bishop 2011). Ternary judgment…
View article: Referential choice in L2 English: Comparing L1 Spanish and L1 Dutch speakers
Referential choice in L2 English: Comparing L1 Spanish and L1 Dutch speakers Open
Variability in the second language (L2) referential choice could be due to lower language proficiency in the L2 or cross-linguistic influence. We compare the L2 English referential choices of bilinguals of typologically different languages…
View article: Conceptual design of an autonomous single-container vessel
Conceptual design of an autonomous single-container vessel Open
The growth of maritime shipping is leading to the creation of larger vessels. However, this expansion in size brings with it several challenges, including the development of maritime infrastructure, the potential for growth in third-world …
View article: A longitudinal event-related potentials study of idiom processing in healthy elderly adults
A longitudinal event-related potentials study of idiom processing in healthy elderly adults Open
This study investigates the longitudinal effects of cognitive aging on elderly adults’ sentence processing. To this aim, 16 Dutch elderly adults who participated in a previous study on idiom processing were tested again three years later, …
View article: Prelingually Deaf Children With Cochlear Implants Show Better Perception of Voice Cues and Speech in Competing Speech Than Postlingually Deaf Adults With Cochlear Implants
Prelingually Deaf Children With Cochlear Implants Show Better Perception of Voice Cues and Speech in Competing Speech Than Postlingually Deaf Adults With Cochlear Implants Open
Objectives: Postlingually deaf adults with cochlear implants (CIs) have difficulties with perceiving differences in speakers’ voice characteristics and benefit little from voice differences for the perception of speech in competing speech.…
View article: Left dislocation in Dutch
Left dislocation in Dutch Open
Left Dislocation in Dutch is still poorly understood. In particular, it is unclear why speakers of Dutch use this construction and which factors influence its use. To obtain more insight in the function and use of Left Dislocation in Dutch…
View article: How children acquire pronouns
How children acquire pronouns Open
This chapter considers the challenges that children face when acquiring pronouns in their first language. These challenges include the way pronouns may shift reference depending on who is the speaker and who is the addressee, how the inter…
View article: Editorial: Perspective taking in language
Editorial: Perspective taking in language Open
EDITORIAL article Front. Commun., 04 April 2023Sec. Language Sciences Volume 8 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2023.1160727
View article: Image-Based Sorghum Head Counting When You Only Look Once
Image-Based Sorghum Head Counting When You Only Look Once Open
Modern trends in digital agriculture have seen a shift towards artificial intelligence for crop quality assessment and yield estimation. In this work, we document how a parameter tuned single-shot object detection algorithm can be used to …
View article: A cognitive modeling approach to learning and using reference biases in language
A cognitive modeling approach to learning and using reference biases in language Open
During real-time language processing, people rely on linguistic and non-linguistic biases to anticipate upcoming linguistic input. One of these linguistic biases is known as the implicit causality bias , wherein language users anticipate t…
View article: An exploration of error-driven learning in simple two-layer networks from a discriminative learning perspective
An exploration of error-driven learning in simple two-layer networks from a discriminative learning perspective Open
Error-driven learning algorithms, which iteratively adjust expectations based on prediction error, are the basis for a vast array of computational models in the brain and cognitive sciences that often differ widely in their precise form an…
View article: The discourse structure of free indirect discourse reports
The discourse structure of free indirect discourse reports Open
We investigate the discourse structure of Free Indirect Discourse passages in narratives. We argue that Free Indirect Discourse reports consist of two separate propositional discourse units: an (explicit or implicit) frame segment and a re…
View article: Prediction Impairment May Explain Communication Difficulties in Autism
Prediction Impairment May Explain Communication Difficulties in Autism Open
OPINION article Front. Psychol., 28 September 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.734024
View article: Child-Like Adults: Dual-Task Effects on Collective vs. Distributive Sentence Interpretations
Child-Like Adults: Dual-Task Effects on Collective vs. Distributive Sentence Interpretations Open
In this work, we consider a recent proposal that claims that the preferred interpretation of sentences containing definite plural expressions, such as “The boys are building a snowman,” is not determined by semantic composition but is prag…
View article: Children’s Pronoun Interpretation Problems Are Related to Theory of Mind and Inhibition, But Not Working Memory
Children’s Pronoun Interpretation Problems Are Related to Theory of Mind and Inhibition, But Not Working Memory Open
In several languages, including English and Dutch, children’s acquisition of the interpretation of object pronouns (e.g., him ) is delayed compared to that of reflexives (e.g., himself ). Various syntactic and pragmatic explanations have b…
View article: School-age children benefit from voice gender cue differences for the perception of speech in competing speech
School-age children benefit from voice gender cue differences for the perception of speech in competing speech Open
Differences in speakers' voice characteristics, such as mean fundamental frequency (F0) and vocal-tract length (VTL), that primarily define speakers' so-called perceived voice gender facilitate the perception of speech in competing speech.…
View article: How Children Process Reduced Forms: A Computational Cognitive Modeling Approach to Pronoun Processing in Discourse
How Children Process Reduced Forms: A Computational Cognitive Modeling Approach to Pronoun Processing in Discourse Open
Reduced forms such as the pronoun he provide little information about their intended meaning compared to more elaborate descriptions such as the lead singer of Coldplay . Listeners must therefore use contextual information to recover their…
View article: Complex Inferential Processes Are Needed for Implicature Comprehension, but Not for Implicature Production
Complex Inferential Processes Are Needed for Implicature Comprehension, but Not for Implicature Production Open
Upon hearing “Some of Michelangelo’s sculptures are in Rome,” adults can easily generate a scalar implicature and infer that the intended meaning of the utterance corresponds to “Some but not all Michelangelo’s sculptures are in Rome.” Com…
View article: Pragmatics is not a monolithic phenomenon, and neither is theory of mind: Response to Kissine
Pragmatics is not a monolithic phenomenon, and neither is theory of mind: Response to Kissine Open
In this commentary, we emphasize the importance of the observations presented by Kissine (2021) in his target article for our understanding of the nonmonolithic nature of pragmatics. Our first aim is to complement Kissine's argument, discu…
View article: Balancing the (Horn) Scale : Explaining the Production-Comprehension Asymmetry for Scalar Implicatures
Balancing the (Horn) Scale : Explaining the Production-Comprehension Asymmetry for Scalar Implicatures Open
Preschoolers struggle with Scalar Implicature (SI) generation, showing difficulties in interpreting the scalar element “some” with its upper-bounded meaning “some but not all”. Strikingly, despite the fact that the comprehension of “some” …
View article: Order Matters! Influences of Linear Order on Linguistic Category Learning
Order Matters! Influences of Linear Order on Linguistic Category Learning Open
Linguistic category learning has been shown to be highly sensitive to linear order, and depending on the task, differentially sensitive to the information provided by preceding category markers ( premarkers , e.g., gendered articles) or su…
View article: Production Before Comprehension in the Emergence of Transitive Constructions in Dutch Child Language
Production Before Comprehension in the Emergence of Transitive Constructions in Dutch Child Language Open
Although 2-year-old English- or Dutch-speaking children tend to use correct subject-object word order in their own utterances, they appear to make a substantial number of word order errors in their comprehension of other people's utterance…