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Orita, Naho; Vornov, Eliana; Feldman, Naomi H. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
This study formalizes and compares two major hypotheses in speakers' choices of referring expressions: the topicality model that chooses a form based on the topicality of the referent, and the rational model that chooses a form based on the informativity of the form and its speech cost. Simulations suggest that both the topicality of the referent…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Speech Communication, Preferences, Form Classes (Languages)
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Blumenthal-Dramé, Alice – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
This article presents a self-paced reading study comparing the online processing of interclausal discourse relations in native speakers of English and German. The study aims to contribute to two overarching questions: First, it puts to the test the so-called causality-by-default hypothesis, which states that causality is a default assumption,…
Descriptors: Language Processing, German, Reading Processes, Comparative Analysis
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Krekoski, Ross – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Recent studies illustrate cases of turn continuations that are not necessarily criterially dependent on clausal syntax (Couper-Kuhlen & Ono, 2007; Ford, Fox, & Thompson, 2002), advancing a more multidimensional construal of turn expansions, in general, which, as Auer (2007) put it, "is not a syntactic issue alone" (p. 651). This study further…
Descriptors: Japanese, Phrase Structure, Syntax, Pragmatics
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Ferretti, Todd R.; Singer, Murray; Harwood, Jenna – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
We used ERP methodology to investigate how readers validate discourse concepts and update situation models when those concepts followed factive (e.g., knew) and nonfactive (e.g., "guessed") verbs, and also when they were true, false, or indeterminate with reference to previous discourse. Following factive verbs, early (P2) and later brain…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Diagnostic Tests, Linguistic Theory, Verbs
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Steen, Gerard – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
An evaluation of conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) offered by Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. in this issue suggests a number of important opportunities for future research that may be based on interesting research findings produced over the past 3 decades in response to CMT. This reply to Gibbs argues that the main question for discourse processing remains…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Linguistic Theory, Comparative Analysis, Classification
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Kennison, Shelia M.; Fernandez, Elaine C.; Bowers, J. Michael – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
The research demonstrated that there are differences in the processing of sentences containing anaphoric pronouns (e.g., "After Mark arrived, he used the phone.") and cataphoric pronouns (e.g., "After he arrived, Mark used the phone."). Reading time was measured on sentences containing 2 clauses; a pronoun appeared in 1 clause, and a proper name…
Descriptors: Sentences, Sentence Structure, Form Classes (Languages), Language Processing