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Peer reviewedSpooren, Wilbert – Discourse Processes, 1997
Analyzes different strategies used by speakers/writers and hearers/readers to deal with underspecified coherence relations, phrased in terms of Horn's (1984) Q- and R- principle. Presents data from the psycholinguistic literature on the interpretation of underspecified relations and data from language-acquisition research suggesting that both…
Descriptors: Coherence, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
Peer reviewedFagan, William T. – Research in the Teaching of English, 1982
Investigates the relationships between the occurrence of mazes (garbles, word tangles, or false starts), sentence complexity, and the use of connectives in 20 fifth-grade students. (HOD)
Descriptors: Coherence, Elementary Education, Error Analysis (Language), Grade 5
Peer reviewedBennett-Kastor, Tina L. – Journal of Child Language, 1986
Traces the development of predicate use for genre and cohesion in the narratives of children aged two to five, examining predicate structures and types and their linkages via three types of parallelism and by means of explicit connectives. (Author/SED)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Coherence, Connected Discourse
