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Naming versus referring in the selection of words

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 1999

Peter C. Gordon
Peter C. Gordon
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3270 pcg@email.unc.edu www.unc.edu/depts/cogpsych/gordon
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Abstract

The theory of lexical selection presented by Levelt, Roelofs & Meyer addresses the mechanisms of semantic activation that lead to the selection of isolated words. The theory does not appear to extend naturally to the referential use of words (particularly pronouns) in coherent discourse. A more complete theory of lexical selection has to consider the semantics of discourse as well as lexical semantics.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , February 1999 , pp. 44
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© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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