4 articles in this issue
Jet Hoek,Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul,Ted J.M. Sanders
The Cognitive approach to Coherence Relations (Sanders, Spooren, & Noordman, 1992) was originally proposed as a set of cognitively plausible primitives to order coherence relations, but is also increasingly used as a discourse annotation scheme. This pape... see more
Sandra Anne Zerkle,Jennifer Arnold
How does thematic role predictability affect reference production? This study tests a planning facilitation hypothesis – that the predictability effect on reference form can be explained in terms of the time course of utterance planning. In a discourse pr... see more
J. Trevor D'Arcey,Shereen Oraby,Jean E Fox Tree
We examined the predictive value of wait signals for sarcasm in online debate forums. In a corpus comparison we examined the word frequency of um and uh across six corpora. In general, there were far more fillers in spoken corpora than written... see more
Juliane Burmester,Katharina Spalek,Isabell Wartenburger
Everyday communication is enriched by the visual environment that listeners concomitantly link to the linguistic input. If and when visual cues are integrated into the mental meaning representation of the communicative setting, is still unclear. In our ea... see more