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Peer reviewedvan den Broek, Paul; Trabasso, Tom – Discourse Processes, 1986
Describes a study contrasting hierarchical and causal approaches to story understanding indicating that when the number of causal connections increases, the likelihood of summarization for both goal and other statements increases. Suggests that the importance accorded to a statement in a story structure is the result of causal reasoning during…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Connected Discourse, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education
