Summary: The questions to be answered by three experiments were: Do children at the age of 6 construct spatial situation models of narrative texts and, if they do so, which elements of the underlying state of affairs are represented in the models. Before ...
Situation models and text comprehensionAbstract. Recent theories of text comprehension assume that readers build a representation of the situation described by a text in additon to a representation of the text itself. This level of representation, the ...
Representing masculine generics: A theoretical integration of empirical findingsAbstract. The present paper aims at integrating results from several studies on the representation of masculine generics in German into a theoretical framework. Although ...