The main purpose of the current study was to examine the relative significance of vocabulary
knowledge (VK) and syntactic knowledge (SK) in second language (L2) listening ability …

Cognitive and linguistic theories of counterfactual language comprehension assume that
counterfactuals convey a dual meaning. Subjunctive‐counterfactual conditionals (eg,'If Tom …

Conditional reasoning is reasoning that involves statements of the sort If A (Antecedent) then
C (Consequent). This type of reasoning is ubiquitous; everyone engages in it. Indeed, the …

One of the cognitive processes, which has generated more research within the framework of
the Psychology of thinking, is human reasoning. Throughout the history of the Psychology of …

Imagining a counterfactual world using conditionals (eg, If Joanne had remembered her
umbrella…) is common in everyday language. However, such utterances are likely to …

Counterfactual conditionals posit hypothetical scenarios in which antecedent events
contradict reality. This study examined whether and how the processing difficulty of Chinese …

Indicative conditionals of the form if p then q (eg, if student tuition fees rise, then applications
for university places will fall) invite consideration of a hypothetical event (eg, tuition fees …

Tesis presentada sobre diagramas lógicos desarrollados por el autor con fines didácticos,
con explicaciones sobre su funcionamiento, ejercicios resueltos, algunos datos sobre su …

Counterfactual statements are famously difficult to process, and so are negated sentences
and infrequent clause orders. Here, we argue that their combination can ease much of the …

This thesis contributes to the Great Rationality Debate in cognitive science. It introduces and
explores a triangular scheme for understanding the relationship between rationality and two …