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Direct linkGöbel, Alexander; Frazier, Lyn; Clifton, Charles, Jr. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
Recent studies of appositives have turned up differences between sentence-medial appositives and sentence-final appositives, for instance, in their availability for discourse continuations. Three experiments investigated whether medial appositives are more difficult to comprehend than final appositives and if so why. Experiment 1 tested…
Descriptors: Morphemes, Phrase Structure, Figurative Language, Discourse Analysis
Mohamed, Mohamed Taha; Clifton, Charles, Jr. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
An evidential causal relation like, "Because most distinguished students got bad grades, the teacher made some mistakes in evaluating his students' papers," is more difficult to process than a factual one like, "Because he got tired after a long semester, the teacher made some mistakes in evaluating his students' papers" (Noordman & de Blijzer,…
Descriptors: Verbs, Language Processing, Inferences, Guidelines
