Dr Christina Kim, from the Department of English Language & Linguistics, has just published an article in the journal Cognition.
Cognition: International Journal of Cognitive Science, is a bimonthly peer-reviewed journal covering cognitive science, published by Elsevier. It was established in 1972, and currently has the second highest impact factor within the language and linguistics subject area.
Christina’s article concerns the information within a sentence that not only depends on the descriptive content of words, but also on the implicit alternatives in the context of use. Her paper reports the results of four visual eye-tracking experiments to examine how alternative meanings are generated based on the aspects of context, and how they are used in sentences that use the words ‘only’ and ‘also’ to provide focus.
The experiments were conducted using state-of-the-art eye tracking equipment. Christina heads the Department’s Linguistics Lab, which contains such equipment for further research.
Christina’s article appears in Cognition, volume 139, the edition dated June 2015, and the full abstract is available online here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027715000402
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www.sciencedirect.com.chain.kent.ac.uk/science/article/pii/S0010027715000402