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Brocher, Andreas; Chiriacescu, Sofiana Iulia; von Heusinger, Klaus – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2018
In discourse processing, speakers collaborate toward a shared mental model by establishing and recruiting prominence relations between different discourse referents. In this article we investigate to what extent the possibility to infer a referent's existence from preceding context (as indicated by the referent's information status as inferred or…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Eye Movements, Form Classes (Languages), Ambiguity (Semantics)
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Dimroth, Christine; Narasimhan, Bhuvana – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2012
When communicating with their interlocutors, adults have a robust preference to order previously mentioned ("old") referents in the discourse before mentioning referents that have not yet been introduced in the discourse ("new"). But in an experimental study investigating phrasal conjuncts, 3- to 5-year-olds acquiring German…
Descriptors: Child Language, Child Development, Discourse Analysis, Phrase Structure