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Peer reviewedNewman, Jean E. – Discourse Processes, 1985
Describes three experiments that explored the informational roles of emphasis and word order in active sentences. The results, when considered together, strongly implicate recentness, but not emphasis, as an important means of linking temporally contiguous sentences. (HTH)
Descriptors: Coherence, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Language Processing
Peer reviewedTanenhaus, Michael K.; Seidenberg, Mark S. – Discourse Processes, 1981
Describes three experiments that investigated the influence of a context sentence on the processing of a subsequent sentence. Concludes that context can affect within-sentence processes in comprehension. Test materials used in the experiments are appended. (FL)
Descriptors: Context Clues, Discourse Analysis, Higher Education, Reading Comprehension
