Josep Demestre
Biographic Data
| ID | 3076093 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Josep Demestre |
| GIVEN NAMES | Josep |
| FAMILY NAME | Demestre |
| SIGNATURE | DEMESTRE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Rovira i Virgili |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9221-066X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Default meanings: Language’s logical connectives between comprehension and reasoning
Language employs various coordinators to connect propositions, a subset of which are “logical” in nature and thus analogous to the truth operators of formal logic. We here focus on two linguistic connectives and their negations: conjunction and and (inclusive) disjunction or . Linguistic connectives exhibit a truth-conditional component as part of their meaning (their semantics), but their use in context can give rise to various implicatures and …
Effects of world knowledge on the prediction of upcoming verbs: An Eye-Tracking Study
Some theories of sentence processing make a distinction between two kinds of meaning: a linguistic meaning encoded at the lexicon (i.e., selectional restrictions), and an extralinguistic knowledge derived from our everyday experiences (i.e., world knowledge). According to such theories, the former meaning is privileged over the latter in terms of the time-course of its access and influence during on-line language comprehension. The present study …
The actress was on the balcony, after all: Eye-tracking locality and PR-availability effects in Spanish
The relationship between syntactic ambiguity and locality has been a reliable cornerstone in theories of language comprehension with one exception: non-local preferences in object-modifying relative clauses preceded by two potential hosts (DP1 of DP2 RC). We test the offline and online effects of the availability of an alternative structure, the pseudo-relative, on the parsing of relative clauses. It has been claimed that pseudo-relatives are pre…
The gender congruency effect in Catalan–Spanish bilinguals: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence
The present study examines whether processing a word in one language is affected by the grammatical gender of its translation equivalent in another language. To this end, a group of Catalan–Spanish bilinguals performed a translation–recognition task while event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded. Participants were presented with Catalan and Spanish pairs of words and had to decide if they were translation equivalents. Correct translations in…
Identifying the Null Subject: Evidence from Event-Related Brain Potentials
Identifying the Null Subject: Evidence from Event-Related Brain Potentials
Effects of world knowledge on the prediction of upcoming verbs: An Eye-Tracking Study
Some theories of sentence processing make a distinction between two kinds of meaning: a linguistic meaning encoded at the lexicon (i.e., selectional restrictions), and an extralinguistic knowledge derived from our everyday experiences (i.e., world knowledge). According to such theories, the former meaning is privileged over the latter in terms of the time-course of its access and influence during on-line language comprehension. The present study …
Identifying the Null Subject: Evidence from Event-Related Brain Potentials
The gender congruency effect in Catalan–Spanish bilinguals: Behavioral and electrophysiological evidence
The present study examines whether processing a word in one language is affected by the grammatical gender of its translation equivalent in another language. To this end, a group of Catalan–Spanish bilinguals performed a translation–recognition task while event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded. Participants were presented with Catalan and Spanish pairs of words and had to decide if they were translation equivalents. Correct translations in…
The actress was on the balcony, after all: Eye-tracking locality and PR-availability effects in Spanish
The relationship between syntactic ambiguity and locality has been a reliable cornerstone in theories of language comprehension with one exception: non-local preferences in object-modifying relative clauses preceded by two potential hosts (DP1 of DP2 RC). We test the offline and online effects of the availability of an alternative structure, the pseudo-relative, on the parsing of relative clauses. It has been claimed that pseudo-relatives are pre…
Effects of world knowledge on the prediction of upcoming verbs: An Eye-Tracking Study
Some theories of sentence processing make a distinction between two kinds of meaning: a linguistic meaning encoded at the lexicon (i.e., selectional restrictions), and an extralinguistic knowledge derived from our everyday experiences (i.e., world knowledge). According to such theories, the former meaning is privileged over the latter in terms of the time-course of its access and influence during on-line language comprehension. The present study …
Default meanings: Language’s logical connectives between comprehension and reasoning
Language employs various coordinators to connect propositions, a subset of which are “logical” in nature and thus analogous to the truth operators of formal logic. We here focus on two linguistic connectives and their negations: conjunction and and (inclusive) disjunction or . Linguistic connectives exhibit a truth-conditional component as part of their meaning (their semantics), but their use in context can give rise to various implicatures and …
Linguistics (5 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Language Development and Disorders (3 works) · Natural language processing (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works)