Lieselotte Pust's scientific contributions

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... It is worth noting that this indirect path to a referent is not specific to the process of pronoun interpretation. Even with a full noun phrase, comprehenders will draw on its ingredients to enrich, modify, and sometimes bypass elements of its semantic meaning (e.g., Donnellan, 1966;Hobbs, 1987;Nash-Webber, 1978;Reimer, 1998;Roberts, 1993;Sperber & Wilson, 1986). For example, a child's description of some crayon scribbles as a cat is understood to mean "picture of a cat" (and, even so, the referent may lack any visual similarity to an actual cat). ...