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Direct linkLassonde, Karla A.; O'Brien, Edward J. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
There is general agreement that predictive inferences are activated when there is strong contextual support in the discourse model; however, there has been debate concerning the specificity of these inferences. In a series of 3 experiments, the specificity of context was manipulated to test the effects of contextual support on inference…
Descriptors: Semantics, Inferences, Prediction, Cues
