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Direct linkTorabi 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
Kleijn, Suzanne; Pander Maat, Henk L. W.; Sanders, Ted J. M. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2019
Studies investigating the effect of connectives on comprehension have yielded different results, most likely because of differences in methodology and limited samples of texts and readers. We added and removed causal, temporal, contrastive, and additive connectives in 20 authentic Dutch texts. Dutch adolescents (n = 794) differing in reading…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Indo European Languages, Connected Discourse, Adolescents
McNamara, Danielle S.; Louwerse, Max M.; McCarthy, Philip M.; Graesser, Arthur C. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2010
This study addresses the need in discourse psychology for computational techniques that analyze text on multiple levels of cohesion and text difficulty. Discourse psychologists often investigate phenomena related to discourse processing using lengthy texts containing multiple paragraphs, as opposed to single word and sentence stimuli.…
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Connected Discourse, Difficulty Level, Rhetoric
