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Shallow Processing and Attention Capture in Written and Spoken Discourse
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Sanford, Alison J. S.; Sanford, Anthony J.; Molle, Jo; Emmott, Catherine – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
Processing of discourse seems to be far from uniform with much evidence indicating that it can be quite shallow. The question is then what modulates depth of processing? A range of discourse devices exist that we believe may lead to more detailed processing of language input (Attention Capturers), thus serving as modulators of processing enabling…
Descriptors: Semantics, Linguistic Input, Cognitive Processes, Experiments