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4123
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Overview

Ted Sanders is affiliated with Utrecht University in the Netherlands. Their research focuses primarily on the intersection of psychology and arts and humanities, with particular expertise in experimental and cognitive psychology as well as language and linguistics.

Sanders's research field spans various subfields, including:

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Literature and Literary Theory

Their main research topics cover:

  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Categorization, perception, and language
  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Text Readability and Simplification

Ted Sanders has published several papers, including the following recent works:

  • "Individual differences in expecting coherence relations: Exploring the variability in sensitivity to contextual signals in discourse," 2020, Discourse Processes
  • "Vivid elements in Dutch educational texts," 2020, Narrative Inquiry
  • "Causality, subjectivity and mental spaces: Insights from on-line discourse processing," 2020, Cognitive Linguistics
  • "Scolding the child who threw the scissors: Shaping discourse expectations by restricting referents," 2020, Language Cognition and Neuroscience
  • "Expectations from relative clauses: Real-time coherence updates in discourse processing," 2021, Cognition

Frequent collaborators of Sanders include:

  • Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul (9 joint publications)
  • Wilbert Spooren (7 joint publications)
  • Hongling Xiao (5 joint publications)
  • Jet Hoek (3 joint publications)
  • Aoju Chen (3 joint publications)

The scientist has published extensively in various venues, notably:

  • Discourse Processes
  • Cognitive Linguistics
  • Dialogue & Discourse
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Narrative Inquiry

Best Publications

  • Toward a taxonomy of coherence relations

    Ted J. M. Sanders;Wilbert P. M. Spooren;Leo G. M. Noordman

  • The Role of Coherence Relations and Their Linguistic Markers in Text Processing

    Ted J. M. Sanders;Leo G. M. Noordman

  • The classification of coherence relations and their linguistic markers: An exploration of two languages

    AlistaiLr Knott;Ted Sanders

  • Coherence relations in a cognitive theory of discourse representation

    Ted J. M. Sanders;Wilbert P. M. Spooren;Leo G. M. Noordman

  • What makes speech sound fluent? The contributions of pauses, speed and repairs

    Hans Rutger Bosker;Anne-France Pinget;Hugo Quené;Ted Sanders

  • Semantic and pragmatic sources of coherence: On the categorization of coherence relations in context

    Ted Sanders

  • L1 use during L2 writing: an empirical study of a complex phenomenon

    Daphne van Weijen;Huub van den Bergh;Huub van den Bergh;Gert Rijlaarsdam;Ted Sanders

  • The impact of relational markers on expository text comprehension in L1 and L2

    Liesbeth Degand;Ted Sanders

  • The acquisition order of coherence relations : On cognitive complexity in discourse

    W.P.M.S. Spooren;T.J.M. Sanders

  • Cohesion and Coherence: Linguistic Approaches

    T. Sanders;H. Pander Maat

  • Subjectivity in causal connectives: An empirical study of language in use*

    Henk Pander Maat;Ted Sanders

  • Causal connectives in discourse processing: How differences in subjectivity are reflected in eye movements

    Anneloes R. Canestrelli;Willem M. Mak;Ted J. M. Sanders

  • Domains of use or subjectivity? The distribution of three Dutch causal connectives explained

    Henk Pander Maat;Ted Sanders

  • Effect of genre on the generalizability of writing scores

    Renske Bouwer;Anton Béguin;Ted Sanders;Huub van den Bergh

  • The emergence of Dutch connectives : How cumulative cognitive complexity explains the order of acquisition

    Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul;Ted Sanders

  • Coherence Marking, Prior Knowledge, and Comprehension of Informative and Persuasive Texts: Sorting Things Out

    Judith Kamalski;Ted Sanders;Leo Lentz

  • Discourse and Text Structure

    T.J.M. Sanders;W.P.M.S. Spooren

  • Causality, cognition and communication: A mental space analysis of subjectivity in causal connectives

    Ted Sanders;José Sanders;Eve Sweetser

  • Text representation as an interface between language and its users

    Ted Sanders;Wilbert Spooren

  • Text representation : linguistic and psycholinguistic aspects

    Ted Sanders;Joost Schilperoord;Wilbert Spooren

Frequent Co-Authors

Huub van den Bergh
Huub van den Bergh Utrecht University
Gert Rijlaarsdam
Gert Rijlaarsdam University of Amsterdam
Eve Sweetser
Eve Sweetser University of California, Berkeley
Nathalie M. Delzenne
Nathalie M. Delzenne Université Catholique de Louvain
Paul van den Broek
Paul van den Broek Leiden University
Rolf A. Zwaan
Rolf A. Zwaan Erasmus University Rotterdam
Morton Ann Gernsbacher
Morton Ann Gernsbacher University of Wisconsin–Madison
Lluís Arola
Lluís Arola Rovira i Virgili University

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