Elaine J. Francis

List of John Benjamins publications for which Elaine J. Francis plays a role.

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Francis, Elaine J. 2011 Constraining mismatch in grammar and in sentence comprehension: The role of default correspondencesPragmatics and Autolexical Grammar: In honor of Jerry Sadock, Yuasa, Etsuyo, Tista Bagchi and Katharine Beals (eds.), pp. 279–298 | Article
This chapter presents psycholinguistic evidence for “default correspondences” – canonical mappings between semantic roles and constituent ordering – in the comprehension of two types of noun phrase mismatch: possessive free relatives and quantificational nouns. Experiments showed that possessive… read more