Wietske Vonk
Biographic Data
| ID | 1453640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wietske Vonk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wietske |
| FAMILY NAME | Vonk |
| SIGNATURE | VONK W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Inferences in Discourse, Psychology of
Propositional Integration and World-Knowledge Inference: Processes in Understanding Because Sentences
The issue addressed in this study is whether propositional integration and world-knowledge inference can be distinguished as separate processes during the comprehension of Dutch omdat (because) sentences. “Propositional integration” refers to the process by which the reader establishes the type of relation between two clauses or sentences. “World-knowledge inference” refers to the process of deriving the general causal relation and checking it ag…
Prosodic Breaks in Sentence Processing Investigated by Event-Related Potentials
Prosodic breaks (PBs) can indicate a sentence's syntactic structure. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) are an excellent way to study auditory sentence processing, since they provide an on-line measure across a complete sentence, in contrast to other on- and off-line methods. ERPs for the first time allowed investigating the processing of a PB itself. PBs reliably elicit a closure positive shift (CPS). We first review several studies on the CP…
World Knowledge in Computational Models of Discourse Comprehension
Because higher level cognitive processes generally involve the use of world knowledge, computational models of these processes require the implementation of a knowledge base. This article identifies and discusses 4 strategies for dealing with world knowledge in computational models: disregarding world knowledge, ad hoc selection, extraction from text corpora, and implementation of all knowledge about a simplified microworld. Each of these strateg…
Spelling consistency affects reading in young Dutch readers with and without dyslexia
The Influence of Animacy on Relative Clause Processing
Epistemic modality and focus in Dutch
This paper reports on a “controlled data elicitation” experiment investigating the role of information structure in the use of epistemic modal expression forms in Dutch. Specifically, it investigates the effect of focality versus nonfocality of an epistemic modal evaluation of Dutch speakers' selection of a number of alternative expression types for epistemic modality (adverbs, predicative adjectives, modal auxiliaries, mental-state predicates, a…
Memory‐based processing in understanding causal information
The reading process depends both on the text and on the reader. When we read a text, propositions in the current input are matched to propositions in the memory representation of the previous discourse but also to knowledge structures in longterm memory. Therefore, memory-based text processing refers both to the bottomup processing of the text and to the top-down activation of the reader's knowledge. In this article, we focus on the role of cogni…
The role of temporal segmentation markers in discourse processing
Recent studies have shown that temporal expressions like around 2 o'clock and then are used by speakers and writers to signal thematic shift and that and is used to signal continuity in narratives. This article focuses on the comprehension function of these markers. The role of the markers was investigated by measuring the availability of words from the preceding text. Results from three experiments suggest that temporal markers modify the availa…
Propositional Integration and World-Knowledge Inference: Processes in Understanding Because Sentences
The issue addressed in this study is whether propositional integration and world-knowledge inference can be distinguished as separate processes during the comprehension of Dutch omdat (because) sentences. “Propositional integration” refers to the process by which the reader establishes the type of relation between two clauses or sentences. “World-knowledge inference” refers to the process of deriving the general causal relation and checking it ag…
The role of temporal segmentation markers in discourse processing
Recent studies have shown that temporal expressions like around 2 o'clock and then are used by speakers and writers to signal thematic shift and that and is used to signal continuity in narratives. This article focuses on the comprehension function of these markers. The role of the markers was investigated by measuring the availability of words from the preceding text. Results from three experiments suggest that temporal markers modify the availa…
Memory‐based processing in understanding causal information
The reading process depends both on the text and on the reader. When we read a text, propositions in the current input are matched to propositions in the memory representation of the previous discourse but also to knowledge structures in longterm memory. Therefore, memory-based text processing refers both to the bottomup processing of the text and to the top-down activation of the reader's knowledge. In this article, we focus on the role of cogni…
Epistemic modality and focus in Dutch
This paper reports on a “controlled data elicitation” experiment investigating the role of information structure in the use of epistemic modal expression forms in Dutch. Specifically, it investigates the effect of focality versus nonfocality of an epistemic modal evaluation of Dutch speakers' selection of a number of alternative expression types for epistemic modality (adverbs, predicative adjectives, modal auxiliaries, mental-state predicates, a…
Prosodic Breaks in Sentence Processing Investigated by Event-Related Potentials
Prosodic breaks (PBs) can indicate a sentence's syntactic structure. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) are an excellent way to study auditory sentence processing, since they provide an on-line measure across a complete sentence, in contrast to other on- and off-line methods. ERPs for the first time allowed investigating the processing of a PB itself. PBs reliably elicit a closure positive shift (CPS). We first review several studies on the CP…
World Knowledge in Computational Models of Discourse Comprehension
Because higher level cognitive processes generally involve the use of world knowledge, computational models of these processes require the implementation of a knowledge base. This article identifies and discusses 4 strategies for dealing with world knowledge in computational models: disregarding world knowledge, ad hoc selection, extraction from text corpora, and implementation of all knowledge about a simplified microworld. Each of these strateg…
The role of temporal segmentation markers in discourse processing
Recent studies have shown that temporal expressions like around 2 o'clock and then are used by speakers and writers to signal thematic shift and that and is used to signal continuity in narratives. This article focuses on the comprehension function of these markers. The role of the markers was investigated by measuring the availability of words from the preceding text. Results from three experiments suggest that temporal markers modify the availa…
Memory‐based processing in understanding causal information
The reading process depends both on the text and on the reader. When we read a text, propositions in the current input are matched to propositions in the memory representation of the previous discourse but also to knowledge structures in longterm memory. Therefore, memory-based text processing refers both to the bottomup processing of the text and to the top-down activation of the reader's knowledge. In this article, we focus on the role of cogni…
Epistemic modality and focus in Dutch
This paper reports on a “controlled data elicitation” experiment investigating the role of information structure in the use of epistemic modal expression forms in Dutch. Specifically, it investigates the effect of focality versus nonfocality of an epistemic modal evaluation of Dutch speakers' selection of a number of alternative expression types for epistemic modality (adverbs, predicative adjectives, modal auxiliaries, mental-state predicates, a…
The Influence of Animacy on Relative Clause Processing
Spelling consistency affects reading in young Dutch readers with and without dyslexia
World Knowledge in Computational Models of Discourse Comprehension
Because higher level cognitive processes generally involve the use of world knowledge, computational models of these processes require the implementation of a knowledge base. This article identifies and discusses 4 strategies for dealing with world knowledge in computational models: disregarding world knowledge, ad hoc selection, extraction from text corpora, and implementation of all knowledge about a simplified microworld. Each of these strateg…
Propositional Integration and World-Knowledge Inference: Processes in Understanding Because Sentences
The issue addressed in this study is whether propositional integration and world-knowledge inference can be distinguished as separate processes during the comprehension of Dutch omdat (because) sentences. “Propositional integration” refers to the process by which the reader establishes the type of relation between two clauses or sentences. “World-knowledge inference” refers to the process of deriving the general causal relation and checking it ag…
Prosodic Breaks in Sentence Processing Investigated by Event-Related Potentials
Prosodic breaks (PBs) can indicate a sentence's syntactic structure. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) are an excellent way to study auditory sentence processing, since they provide an on-line measure across a complete sentence, in contrast to other on- and off-line methods. ERPs for the first time allowed investigating the processing of a PB itself. PBs reliably elicit a closure positive shift (CPS). We first review several studies on the CP…
Inferences in Discourse, Psychology of
Computer Science (8 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Natural language processing (6 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (6 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (5 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 works)