Cognition and Sentence Production (Hardcover)

1 Introduction and Overview.- 1.1 Objective.- 1.2 Language and Thought.- 1.3 Theoretical Assumptions.- 1.4 The Experimental Paradigm.- 1.5 The Pilot Study.- 1.6 Innovations in Design.- 1.7 Experimental Variables.- 1.8 More on the Design.- 1.9 Cross-Linguistic Emphasis.- 1.10 Organization.- 2 Models of Sentence Production.- 2.0 Introduction.- 2.1 Content Models.- 2.2 Process Models.- 2.3 Discussion.- 2.4 Summary.- 3 Perceptual Principles.- 3.0 Introduction.- 3.1 The Interface of Language and Perception.- 3.2 Prelinguistic Cognitive Structures.- 3.3 Hypotheses Based on Prelinguistic Cognitive Structures.- 4 Salience Principles.- 4.0 Introduction.- 4.1 Relationship Between Perceptual and Salience Principles.- 4.2 Earlier Use of the Notion of Salience.- 4.3 Interpretive Synthesis.- 5 Pragmatic Principles.- 5.0 Introduction.- 5.1 Reference and the Maxim of Quantity.- 5.2 Elaboration of Referential Expressions.- 5.3 Selecting a Referent From a Set of Alternatives.- 5.4 Multiple Codability and Attribute Preference.- 6 Design of a Cross-Linguistic Experiment.- 6.0 Introduction.- 6.1 The Experimental Paradigm.- 6.2 Method.- 7 Results and Discussion.- 7.0 Introduction.- 7.1 Perceptual Hypotheses.- 7.2 Salience Hypothesis.- 7.3 Pragmatic Hypotheses.- 7.4 Summary.- 8 Summary and Conclusions.- Appendix 1 Summary of Experimental Hypotheses.- References.- Author Index.