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Katherine Chia; Ashley A. Edwards; Christopher Schatschneider; Michael P. Kaschak – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
We report three experiments that assess whether structural priming in a question-answer dialogue context is affected by the use of direct requests, conventional indirect requests, and nonconventional indirect requests. In Experiments 1 and 2, experimenters made phone calls to businesses and asked either "Can you tell me (at) what time you…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Speech Communication, Language Patterns, Repetition
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Vogels, Jorrig; Lindgren, Josefin – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
When telling a story, a speaker needs to refer to story characters using appropriate expressions, which requires a mental model of the discourse. We hypothesize that, compared to those of adults, children's discourse models are based more on factors that are less cognitively demanding, such as animacy, and as they grow older, discourse factors…
Descriptors: Swedish, Preschool Children, Discourse Analysis, Cues