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Qiu, Zhuang; Ferreira, Fernanda – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2022
This article presents a series of three experiments investigating the processing of nested epistemic expressions, utterances containing two epistemic modals in one clause, such as "he 'certainly may' have forgotten." While some linguists claim that in a nested epistemic expression one modal is semantically embedded within the scope of…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Expressive Language, Language Styles, Linguistic Input
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Torabi Asr, Fatemeh; Demberg, Vera – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2020
Connectives can facilitate the processing of discourse relations by helping comprehenders to infer the intended coherence relation holding between two text spans. Previous experimental studies have focused on pairs of connectives that are very different from one another to be able to compare and formalize the distinguishing effects of these…
Descriptors: Connected Discourse, Form Classes (Languages), Ambiguity (Semantics), Inferences