Discourse Processing


 

My work on discourse  processing uses eye-tracking techniques to investigate the various ways in which readers establish links between sentences in discourse. Much of this work stems from a long-term collaboration with Tony Sanford directed at understandinganaphora resolution. More recent work includes studies of pronoun resolution and the resolution ofdiscourse role anaphora.

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Collaborators

Tony Sanford
Melody Terras



 


 


General Discourse Publications

Rayner, K., Garrod, S. & Perfetti, C.A. (1992) Discourse influences during parsing are delayed.Cognition, 45, 109-139.

Britt, M., Perfetti, C.A., Garrod, S. & Rayner, K. (1992) Parsing in discourse: Context effects and their limits. Journal of Memory and Language, 31, 293-314.

Sanford,A.J. and Garrod,S. (1981) Understanding Written Language.Chichester,John Wiley.


Anaphora Resolution (some publications) -- TOP
 

Garrod, S. & Sanford, A.J. (1999) Incrementality in discourse understanding. In Van Oostendorp, H. & Goldman, S.R. The construction of mental representations during reading, Mahwah,N.J.: LEA. 3-29.

Sanford, A.J. & Garrod, S.(1998) The role of scenario mapping in text comprehension. Discourse Processes,26 (2&3),
159-190.

Garrod, S. & Sanford, A.J.(1994) Resolving sentences in a discourse context: How discourse representation affects language understanding. In M.Gernsbacher (Ed.) Handbook of Psycholinguistics: New York; Academic Press, 675-698.

Sanford, A.J. & Garrod,S. (1994) Selective processing and text comprehension. In M.Gernsbacher (Ed.) Handbook of Psycholinguistics: New York; Academic Press.  699-717.

Sanford, A.J. & Garrod, S. (1989) What, When and How: Questions of Immediacy in Anaphoric Reference Resolution. Language and Cognitive Processes,4,235-263.

Garrod,S. and Sanford,A.J. (1988) Thematic subjecthood and cognitive constraints on discourse structure, Journal of Pragmatics, 12,357-372.

Sanford,A.J. and Garrod,S. (1980) Memory in text comprehension: the problem of reference. In R.S.Nickerson (ed) Attention and Performance VIII, Hillsdale, N.J. LEA. 459-473.

Garrod, S. and  Sanford, A.J.(1977) Interpreting anaphoric relations: the interpretation of semantic information while reading. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behaviour, 16, 77-90.



 
 

Pronoun Resolution (some publications) -- TOP
 

Garrod, S., Freudenthal, D. & Boyle, E. (1994) The role of different types of anaphor in the on-line resolution of sentences in a discourse. Journal of Memory and Language. 33, 39-68.

Garrod, S.(1994) Resolving pronouns and other anaphoric devices: The case for diversity in discourse processing. In  C. Clifton, Jr., L. Frazier, and K. Rayner.(Eds.) Perspectives on sentence processing, Englewood;: N.J. LEA. 339-359.

Garrod, S. and Sanford.A.J. (1982) The mental representation of discourse in a focussed memory system: Implications for the interpretation of anaphoric noun-phrases. Journal of Semantics, 1,21-41.

Anderson,A. Garrod,S. and Sanford,A.J. (1983) The accessibility of pronominal antecedents as a function of episode shifts in narrative text. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 35A,427-440.



 
 

Discourse Role Resolution (some publications) -- TOP

Garrod, S. & Terras, M. (2000)The contribution of lexical and situational knowledge to resolving discourse roles: Bonding and resolution. Journal of Memory and Language.42, 526-544.

Garrod,S., O'Brien, E.J., Morris, R.K. & Rayner,K.  (1990) Elaborative Inferencing as an Active or Passive Process. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Language, Memory and Cognition, 16, 250-257.

Garrod,S. and Sanford,A.J. (1990) Referential Processes in Reading: Focussing on Roles and Individuals. In G.B.Flores d'Arcais, K.Rayner and D.Balota (eds) Comprehension Processes in Reading, Hillsdale,N.J., LEA, 465-484.

Garrod,S. and Sanford, A.J. (1982) Bridging inferences in the extended domain of reference. In A.Baddeley and J.Long (eds) Attention and Performance IX, Hillsdale, N.J. LEA, 331-346.



 
 

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