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Redl, Theresa; Szuba, Agnieszka; de Swart, Peter; Frank, Stefan L.; de Hoop, Helen – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
An eye-tracking experiment was conducted with speakers of Dutch (N = 84, 36 male), a language that falls between grammatical and natural-gender languages. We tested whether a masculine generic pronoun causes a male bias when used in generic statements--that is, in the absence of a specific referent. We tested two types of generic statements by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Indo European Languages, Form Classes (Languages), Cues
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Bögels, Sara; Torreira, Francisco – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
This study investigated the role of contextual and prosodic information in turn-end estimation by means of a button-press task. We presented participants with turns extracted from a corpus of telephone calls visually (i.e., in transcribed form, word-by-word) and auditorily, and asked them to anticipate turn ends by pressing a button. The…
Descriptors: Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Task Analysis, Visual Stimuli
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Juvina, Ion; van Oostendorp, Herre – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
Research on cognitive modeling of information search and Web navigation emphasizes the importance of "information scent" (the relevance of semantic cues such as link labels and headings to a reader's goal; Pirolli & Card, 1999). This article shows that not only semantic but also structural knowledge is involved in navigating the Web…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Cues, Semantics, Internet