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Processing Spoken Discourse: Effects of Position and Emphasis on Judgments of Textual Coherence.

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Newman, 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

Discourse Organization and Sentence Form: The Structure of Room Descriptions in Dutch.

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Ehrich, Veronika; Kosler, Charlotte – Discourse Processes, 1983

Presents an experimental approach to the linguistic analysis of discourse organization. (FL)

Descriptors: Adults, Discourse Analysis, Dutch, Language Research