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Peer reviewedTakahashi, Satomi; Roitblat, Herbert L. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1994
Examines the comprehension of English conventional indirect requests by native English speakers and Japanese learners of English. Subjects read stories inducing either a conventional or a literal interpretation of a priming sentence. Results suggest that both native and nonnative speakers process both meanings of an ambiguous conventional request.…
Descriptors: College Students, English, English (Second Language), Measures (Individuals)
