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Peer reviewedCarrell, Patricia L. – Language Learning, 1984
Investigates the drawing of two types of inferences in English as a second language--presuppositions and implications--from English sentences containing factive and implicative predicates. Results show (1) better comprehension of implied meaning over presupposed meaning, (2) better performance on semantically positive predicative then on…
Descriptors: Comprehension, English (Second Language), Language Processing, Language Research
