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SUMMARY:Time and causality in language comprehension - Dr Silvia Gennari\,
  University of York\, Department of Psychology
DTSTART:20100302T160000Z
DTEND:20100302T173000Z
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CONTACT:Chris Cummins
DESCRIPTION:A prevalent issue in language processing is how we map words a
 nd sentences onto representations of events.  Although the processing of s
 ome aspects of events is fairly well understood\, relatively little is kno
 wn about how we process and represent an event's time course and its tempo
 ral relation to other events.  In this talk\, I present a series of experi
 ments investigating the processing of durative and non-durative events and
  the types of knowledge underlying their representations.  It is argued th
 at (a) the duration of events is computed as soon as sufficient informatio
 n has accrued in the unfolding sentence\; and (b) event duration represent
 ations are grounded in knowledge of causal relations between events in the
  world.  Thus\, causality provides the basis for temporal understanding in
  language comprehension.
LOCATION:GR-06/07\, English Faculty Building
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