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Katherine Chia; Ashley A. Edwards; Christopher Schatschneider; Michael P. Kaschak – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2023
We report three experiments that assess whether structural priming in a question-answer dialogue context is affected by the use of direct requests, conventional indirect requests, and nonconventional indirect requests. In Experiments 1 and 2, experimenters made phone calls to businesses and asked either "Can you tell me (at) what time you…
Descriptors: Questioning Techniques, Speech Communication, Language Patterns, Repetition
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Pu, Ming-Ming – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2007
The particular forms of relative clauses (RCs) in Mandarin Chinese lead to particular cognitive, semantic, pragmatic, and discourse constraints on speakers and writers. In this study, analyses of oral and written Mandarin Chinese narratives demonstrate that SS structures (subject head noun phrase [NP] modified by a subject RC) are produced more…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Semantics, Nouns, Mandarin Chinese