Cognitive and Affective Aspects of Verbal Humor: A Visual-World Eye-Tracking Study

Autor: Laura Israel, Lars Konieczny, Evelyn C. Ferstl

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Communication, Vol 6 (2022)

Many theories of verbal humour postulate that the funniness of jokes is caused by an incongruency in the punchline whose resolution yields a feeling of mirth. While there are studies testing the prediction that this situation model updating leads to

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The Roles of Implicit Causality and Discourse Context in Pronoun Resolution

Autor: Emiel van den Hoven, Evelyn C. Ferstl

Publikováno v: Frontiers in Communication, Vol 3 (2018)

Some interpersonal verbs show a bias in the proportion of times their subject and object arguments are rementioned in a sample of explanations for the eventuality the verb describes. This bias is known as the implicit causality bias. Several studies

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Phonemic awareness in an oral German-origin Brazilian language: a study of Hunsrückisch and German bilinguals

Autor: Augusto Buchweitz, Aline Fay de Azevedo, Bernardo Kolling Limberger, Evelyn C. Ferstl

Publikováno v: Ilha do Desterro, Vol 72, Iss 3, Pp 427-445 (2019)
Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies; Vol. 72 No. 3 (2019): Psycholinguistics: implications for the classroom; 427-445
Ilha do Desterro A Journal of English Language, Literatures in English and Cultural Studies; v. 72 n. 3 (2019): Psycholinguistics: implications for the classroom; 427-445
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Ilha do Desterro, Volume: 72, Issue: 3, Pages: 427-445, Published: 27 FEB 2020

Phonemic awareness is the ability to notice and manipulate language sounds in their base form (phonemes). It is associated with emerging literacy skills and predictive of skilled reading. The aim of the present study was to investigate phonemic aware

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https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/desterro/article/view/67394

Context in language comprehension

Autor: Evelyn C. Ferstl

Publikováno v: Psychology of Learning and Motivation ISBN: 9780323901352

Context plays an important role for language comprehension. Numerous psycho- and neurolinguistic studies have provided evidence for context effects on syntactic disambiguation, semantic interpretation, and text comprehension processes, such as infere

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https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.plm.2021.07.002

Association with explanation-conveying constructions predicts verbs’ implicit causality biases

Autor: Evelyn C. Ferstl, Emiel van den Hoven

Publikováno v: International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 22:521-550

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 implici

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https://doi.org/10.1075/ijcl.16121.hov