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Download full textNewman, Jean E.; Canham, Lyn – 1985
A study of the process of listeners' and readers' generation and verification of expectations about spoken and written discourse presented to them examined the possible interactions between surface form and cognitive constraints, to establish baseline measures of the effectiveness of different sentence structures in constraining the production of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Discourse Analysis, Expressive Language
