In discourses involving implicit causality, the implicit cause of the event is referentially
predictable, that is, it is likely to be rementioned. However, it is unclear how referential …

Ambiguity in discourse is pervasive, yet mechanisms of production and processing suggest
that it tends to be compensated in context. The present study sets out to analyze the …

This paper investigates whether three-year-olds are able to process attributive adjectives
(eg, softpillow) as they hear them and to predict the noun (pillow) on the basis of the …

In three eye-tracking experiments the influence of the Dutch causal connective
“want”(because) and the working memory capacity of readers on the usage of verb-based …

This corpus-based study investigates the inter-relation between discourse markers (DMs)
and other contextual signals that contribute to the interpretation of coherence relations. The …

Im Rahmen dieses Überblickskapitels können die hier behandelten Inhalte zum
Erstspracherwerb des Russischen nur als allgemeine Übersicht gelten. Zunächst wird ein …

We report on three experiments that aim at measuring the role of prosody in the acceptability
and interpretation of discourse relations between utterances connected by two French …

Differences between monolinguals and bilinguals are often attributed to crosslinguistic
influence. This paper compares production of discourse connectives by Dutch–Russian …

Production studies show that both Russian-speaking children with specific language
impairment (SLI) and bilingual children for whom Russian is a non-dominant language have …

A central issue in linguistics concerns the relationship between theories and evidence in
data. We investigate this issue in the field of discourse coherence, and particularly the study …