David Braze
List of John Benjamins publications in which David Braze is involved.
Articles
2023 The time-course of contextual modulation for underspecified meaning: An eye-movement study The Mental Lexicon 18:1, pp. 41–93 | Article
Sentences like (1) “The singer began the album” are ambiguous between an agentive reading (The singer began recording/playing/etc. the album) and a constitutive reading (The singer’s song was the first track). The ambiguity is rooted in the meaning specification of the aspectual-verb class,… read more
2012 Complement Coercion: Distinguishing between type-shifting and pragmatic inferencing The Mental Lexicon 7:1, pp. 58–76 | Article
Although Complement Coercion has been systematically associated with computational cost, there remains a serious confound in the experimental evidence built up in previous studies. The confound arises from the fact that lexico-semantic differences within the set of verbs assumed to involve coercion… read more