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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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Cozijn, Reinier; Noordman, Leo G. M.; Vonk, Wietske – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
The issue addressed in this study is whether propositional integration and world-knowledge inference can be distinguished as separate processes during the comprehension of Dutch "omdat" (because) sentences. "Propositional integration" refers to the process by which the reader establishes the type of relation between two clauses…
Descriptors: Sentences, Sentence Structure, Indo European Languages, Word Order
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Otten, Marte; Van Berkum, Jos J. A. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
Language is an intrinsically open-ended system. This fact has led to the widely shared assumption that readers and listeners do not predict upcoming words, at least not in a way that goes beyond simple priming between words. Recent evidence, however, suggests that readers and listeners do anticipate upcoming words "on the fly" as a text…
Descriptors: Prediction, Language Processing, Priming, Foreign Countries
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Verhoeven, Ludo; van Hell, Janet G. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
This study examined the representation of knowledge in text writing in 20 ten-year-old children and 20 adults in the Netherlands. The research analyzed the use of clause linking devices to compose larger text units. Special attention was given to the use of causal relational markers and the extent to which causal relations within the texts matched…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Childrens Writing, Form Classes (Languages), Knowledge Representation