Brian Mcelree
Biographic Data
| ID | 2362136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Mcelree |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcelree |
| SIGNATURE | MCELREE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Comprehension of Linguistic Dependencies
Comprehenders can rapidly and efficiently interpret expressions with various types of non-adjacent dependencies. In the sentence The boy that the teacher warned fell, boy is readily interpreted as the subject of the verb fall despite the fact that a relative clause, that the teacher warned, intervenes between the two dependent elements. We review research investigating three memory operations proposed for resolving this and other types of non-adj…
The Effect of Negative Polarity Items on Inference Verification
The scalar approach to negative polarity item (NPI) licensing assumes that NPIs are allowable in contexts in which the introduction of the NPI leads to proposition strengthening (e.g. Kadmon & Landman 1993; Krifka 1995; Lahiri 1997; Chierchia 2006). A straightforward processing prediction from such a theory is that NPIs facilitate inference verification from sets to subsets. Three experiments are reported that test this proposal. In each experime…
Retrieval interference in sentence comprehension
Underspecification and Aspectual Coercion
In principle, comprehenders might always make immediate commitments to the interpretation of expressions (full commitment) or wait until such decisions are necessary (minimal commitment; Frazier & Rayner, 1990). One interesting case involves decisions about telicity: whether expressions refer to events that are determinate versus indeterminate with respect to an endpoint. Thus, the insect hopped is apparently determinate, but continuing with a cl…
Memory structures that subserve sentence comprehension
Sentence Comprehension Is Mediated by Content-Addressable Memory Structures
The psychological reality of linguistically defined gaps
The psychological reality of linguistically defined gaps
Sentence Comprehension Is Mediated by Content-Addressable Memory Structures
Underspecification and Aspectual Coercion
In principle, comprehenders might always make immediate commitments to the interpretation of expressions (full commitment) or wait until such decisions are necessary (minimal commitment; Frazier & Rayner, 1990). One interesting case involves decisions about telicity: whether expressions refer to events that are determinate versus indeterminate with respect to an endpoint. Thus, the insect hopped is apparently determinate, but continuing with a cl…
Comprehension of Linguistic Dependencies
Comprehenders can rapidly and efficiently interpret expressions with various types of non-adjacent dependencies. In the sentence The boy that the teacher warned fell, boy is readily interpreted as the subject of the verb fall despite the fact that a relative clause, that the teacher warned, intervenes between the two dependent elements. We review research investigating three memory operations proposed for resolving this and other types of non-adj…
The psychological reality of linguistically defined gaps
Sentence Comprehension Is Mediated by Content-Addressable Memory Structures
Memory structures that subserve sentence comprehension
Retrieval interference in sentence comprehension
Underspecification and Aspectual Coercion
In principle, comprehenders might always make immediate commitments to the interpretation of expressions (full commitment) or wait until such decisions are necessary (minimal commitment; Frazier & Rayner, 1990). One interesting case involves decisions about telicity: whether expressions refer to events that are determinate versus indeterminate with respect to an endpoint. Thus, the insect hopped is apparently determinate, but continuing with a cl…
The Effect of Negative Polarity Items on Inference Verification
The scalar approach to negative polarity item (NPI) licensing assumes that NPIs are allowable in contexts in which the introduction of the NPI leads to proposition strengthening (e.g. Kadmon & Landman 1993; Krifka 1995; Lahiri 1997; Chierchia 2006). A straightforward processing prediction from such a theory is that NPIs facilitate inference verification from sets to subsets. Three experiments are reported that test this proposal. In each experime…
Comprehension of Linguistic Dependencies
Comprehenders can rapidly and efficiently interpret expressions with various types of non-adjacent dependencies. In the sentence The boy that the teacher warned fell, boy is readily interpreted as the subject of the verb fall despite the fact that a relative clause, that the teacher warned, intervenes between the two dependent elements. We review research investigating three memory operations proposed for resolving this and other types of non-adj…
Computer Science (7 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Natural language processing (5 works) · Sentence (5 works) · Sentence processing (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works) · Comprehension (4 works)