Evelyn C. Ferstl

List of John Benjamins publications for which Evelyn C. Ferstl plays a role.

Articles

Given a sentence such as Mary fascinated/admired Sue because she did great, the verb fascinated leads people to interpret she as referring to Mary, whereas admired leads people to interpret she as referring to Sue. This phenomenon is known as implicit causality (IC). Recent studies have shown… read more
Ferstl, Evelyn C. and Florian Th. Siebörger 2007 Neuroimaging studies of coherence processesAnaphors in Text: Cognitive, formal and applied approaches to anaphoric reference, Schwarz-Friesel, Monika, Manfred Consten and Mareile Knees (eds.), pp. 225–240 | Article
Text comprehension involves linking the current sentence or utterance to the previous discourse context. This process of coherence building might be aided by linguistic markers, such as cohesive ties and direct anaphora. However, when the explicitly mentioned information does not provide… read more