LING 3Q93 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Discourse Representation Theory, Propositional Attitude, Mental Chronometry
15 Jan 2016
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The doctor1 did not rush to help the nurse2 because he(1/2) needed the experience. Judgment of pronoun has nothing to do with grammatical properties of sentence but has to do with experience (nurse tends to be female) But not #the wagon is pulling a girl. Psycholinguistic studies have tended to focus on anaphoric resolution that can be best understood in terms of our experience with language (heuristics) or with the real world. Aphasia (left brain damage and right damage), alzheimer"s disease. A discourse has s1, s2, s3 (sentences) more than 1 sentence. Must have consistency in tense between sentences (tense mismatch) Up to the listener to try and make it coherent. Also anaphora must have an antecedent to refer back to. When we establish a topic, it is maintained within the discourse. Mood of an utterance tells us whether or not it is asserted. Speakers commitment to the truth of the proposition.
