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Clifton, Charles; Frazier, Lyn – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
Domain restriction is a pervasive if often neglected part of discourse comprehension. Speakers and authors implicitly limit the domain of discourse of quantifiers (e.g., "everyone") and noun phrases (e.g., "the girls"). Our previous research shows that an initial temporal or locative prepositional phrase (PP), which introduces…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Nouns, Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages)
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Sonia, Allison N.; Magliano, Joseph P.; McCarthy, Kathryn S.; Creer, Sarah D.; McNamara, Danielle S.; Allen, Laura, K. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
The constructed responses individuals generate while reading can provide insights into their coherence-building processes. The current study examined how the cohesion of constructed responses relates to performance on an integrated writing task. Participants (N = 95) completed a multiple document reading task wherein they were prompted to think…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Connected Discourse, Reading Processes, Writing Skills