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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Bayesian probability calculus has recently emerged as a model for how the mind learns about fictional and cultural environments. This essay considers reading a narrative as a process of learning about the probabilities of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
What would a model of the embodied reader look like? Is he tied to the embodied resonances evoked by the text and by extension grounded in the here and now of the represented situation? Or can we integrate the dynamics of ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
‘Probability’ seems to be a term forgotten by literary theory. Central to neoclassical and Augustan criticism, probability describes the inferences of readers and their developing discernment of what is likely to happen ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
In this article, I use a parallel corpus from the 13th and 14th century to tease out some of the structural differences that existed between Old Spanish and Old Portuguese. While these two related languages were relatively ...
(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)
Both Old English and Old French are commonly described as V2 languages. We investigate the position of the postverbal subject based on a corpus of medieval texts with respect to syntax and information structure. Our main ...