Predictive understanding
pp. 91-101
in: Robin N. Campbell, Philip T. Smith (eds), Recent advances in the psychology of language, Berlin, Springer, 1978Abstract
A frequently ignored issue in the disciplines of psychology and linguistics is the structure of texts. Sentences rarely come in isolation, but rather in groups, the meaning of whose combination is more than the meaning of the individual parts. Such meaning combination can occur within a sentence as well.