Context represents a broad range of aspects, comprising for example the conversational setting (including speaker and hearer), mutual knowledge, inter- and intratextual information. Crucially, research targeting the temporal dynamics of language processing in discourse suggests that these different features affect processes in two discrete stages. Based on findings from time-sensitive electrophysiology, this article provides an overview over previous investigation of language comprehension in context, demonstrating that the human parser appears to be driven by two principled processes: i) a highly expectation-based mechanism that is fed by numerous contextual features (reflected in N400-effects), and ii) a mechanism that is concerned with the updating of propositional content and is driven by considerations of cooperativeness and speaker intention (reflected by a Late Positivity).
2022. Perceptions of Context. Epistemological and Methodological Implications for Meta-Studying Zoo-Communication. Biosemiotics 15:3 ► pp. 497 ff.
Ongstad, Sigmund
2023. The Challenge of Positioning Space and Time in Systemic Studies of Animal Utterances as Both Embodied and External Contexts. Linguistic Frontiers 6:3 ► pp. 1 ff.
Greco, Matteo, Paolo Canal, Valentina Bambini & Andrea Moro
2020. Modulating “Surprise” with Syntax: A Study on Negative Sentences and Eye-Movement Recording. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 49:3 ► pp. 415 ff.
Jachmann, Torsten Kai, Heiner Drenhaus, Maria Staudte & Matthew W. Crocker
2019. Influence of speakers’ gaze on situated language comprehension: Evidence from Event-Related Potentials. Brain and Cognition 135 ► pp. 103571 ff.
Bambini, Valentina, Chiara Bertini, Walter Schaeken, Alessandra Stella & Francesco Di Russo
2016. Disentangling Metaphor from Context: An ERP Study. Frontiers in Psychology 7
Caroline Féry & Shinichiro Ishihara
2016. The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure,
Bambini, Valentina, Donatella Resta, Mirko Grimaldi & Francesco Di Russo
2014. A Dataset of Metaphors from the Italian Literature: Exploring Psycholinguistic Variables and the Role of Context. PLoS ONE 9:9 ► pp. e105634 ff.
Schumacher, Petra B.
2014. Content and context in incremental processing: “the ham sandwich” revisited. Philosophical Studies 168:1 ► pp. 151 ff.
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