Tests views of linguistic knowledge against the results of three experiments using English definite and indefinite article variant preference in both a production and a perception task. Results argue against a rule-based model of speaker knowledge or knowledge of article--word combinations, but support the view that performance is based on…

The notion that inferences contributing to coherence of a text representation are made during reading is examined. It is demonstrated that this idea is an overgeneralization and that one must distinguish between relations internal to the structure of the representation and relations that involve references to the world. (27 references) (Author/LB)

In a study of knowledge activation and sentence mapping, subjects read stories that described concrete actions, and then the content of the stories was manipulated (i.e. stories were written that implied different emotional states). It is suggested that the more emotionally evoking situations one encounters the more memory traces are stored and…