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.
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.