There is consensus that health promotion programs should be culturally sensitive (CS). Yet,
despite the ubiquitous nature of CS within public health research and practice, there has …

Comparative studies of linguistic faculties in animals pose an evolutionary paradox:
language involves certain perceptual and motor abilities, but it is not clear that this serves as …

The interpretation of anaphora-how we interpret expressions such as definite pronouns (he,
she, it) and verbal elliptical phrases (such as" did so, too") in the course of ordinary …

First Published in 2002. This volume is part of the'Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics'
series. This book investigates the processing of ellipsis sentences, focusing on the following …

An analysis of antecedent mismatch effects under ellipsis is proposed to explain why some
cases of verb phrase ellipsis exhibit a sizeable penalty when the elided target is not …

Event-related potentials were recorded to substantiate the claim of a distinct psycholinguistic
status of (a) pronouns vs. proper names and (b) ellipses vs. proper names. In two studies 41 …

Many languages allow arguments to be omitted when they are recoverable from the context,
but how do people comprehend sentences with a missing argument? We contrast a …

In this paper, we will argue that, of the various grammatical and discourse constraints that
affect acceptability in verb phrase ellipsis (VPE), only the structural parallelism constraint is …

Theories differ as to how people recover the meaning of verb-phrase (VP) ellipsis. According
to the syntactic account, people reproduce the syntactic structure of the antecedent during …

When an elided constituent and its antecedent do not match syntactically, the presence of a
word implying the non-actuality of the state of affairs described in the antecedent seems to …