?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=TACIT+INTEGRATION+AND+REFERENTIAL+STRUCTURE+IN+THE+LANGUAGE+COMPREHENSION+OF+APHASICS+AND+NORMALS&rft.creator=Rosenthal%2C+Victor&rft.creator=Bisiacchi%2C+Patrizia&rft.subject=Cognitive+Psychology&rft.subject=Neurolinguistics&rft.subject=Neuropsychology&rft.subject=Psycholinguistics&rft.description=Aphasics%2C+brain+damaged+patients+with+no+language+deficit%2C+neurologically+intact+elderly+subjects+and+university+undergraduates+matched+pictures+to+sentences+having+compelling+tacit+implications+(e.g.+the+sentence+The+fox+grabs+the+hen+strongly+invites+one+to+assume+that+the+fox+will+eat+the+hen).+All+groups+made%2C+for+the+same+sentences%2C+qualitatively+similar+referential+errors+consisting+in+choosing+a+tacit+implication+picture.+Two+auxiliary+experiments+using+the+same+target+sentences+in+other+interpretive+situations+permitted+ruling+out+the+possibility+that+these+errors+were+due+to+the+putative+intrinsic+semantic+properties+of+the+sentences%2C+showing+that+the+sentences+which+were+most+liable+to+elicit+integrative+error+varied+from+task+to+task.+These+results+are+interpreted+within+the+conceptual+framework+which+posits+that+reliable+directions+for+interpretation+are+couched+by+the+speaker+in+the+very+structure+of+his+utterances+(the+utterance's+referential+structure)+providing+the+hearer+with+means+to+restructure+the+relevant+personal+knowledge+integrated+into+the+interpretive+process+in+accordance+with+the+speaker's+communicative+intent.+The+determination+of+the+referential+structure+(RSD)+of+utterances+thus+seems+critical+to+their+correct+or%2C+more+precisely%2C+conventional+interpretation%2C+and%2C+along+with+the+tacit+integration+of+relevant+sources+of+personal+knowledge%2C+constitutes+the+principal+cognitive+device+enabling+us+to+understand+each+other.+But+this+device+appears+to+be+easily+corruptible.+It+is+suggested+that+many+errors+made+by+aphasics+in+language+interpretation+are+due+to+a+failure+to+follow+all+referential+instructions%2C+but+that+qualitatively+similar+failures+also+occur+in+normal+subjects%2C+though+to+a+lesser+degree.+Language+interpretation+is+a+fallible+process+and+aphasic+errors+provide+remarkable+clues+for+the+understanding+of+its+subtle+referential+mechanisms.&rft.date=1997&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpostscript&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F119%2F1%2FTacit.ps&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F119%2F5%2FTacit.pdf&rft.identifier=++Rosenthal%2C+Victor+and+Bisiacchi%2C+Patrizia++(1997)+TACIT+INTEGRATION+AND+REFERENTIAL+STRUCTURE+IN+THE+LANGUAGE+COMPREHENSION+OF+APHASICS+AND+NORMALS.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F119%2F