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Bock, Kathryn – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1977
An investigation of the relationship between a speaker's decision to treat portions of the information in a sentence as given or new and the syntactic form of the sentence produced. A tendency of English speakers to use alternative surface structure rules to present given information before new information is demonstrated. (AMH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Research, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics
Hirst, William; Brill, Gary A. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1980
Three experiments were conducted to ascertain the effect of contextual restraints on pronoun assignment. Pronoun selection is based on integration of the context even where it is already syntactically constrained. Integration occurs during and not following the assignment of the pronoun. (PMJ)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Form Classes (Languages), Grammar, Language Patterns
