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Temporal adverbials as segmentation markers in discourse comprehension
Yves Bestgen,Wietske Vonk +1 more
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In this paper, the authors consider the comprehension function of one of these segmentation markers, namely a temporal adverbial, by studying its role in a well-established boundary effect.About:
This article is published in Journal of Memory and Language.The article was published on 2000-01-01. It has received 79 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Sentence & Adverbial.read more
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Foundations of Cognitive Science
TL;DR: A new book enPDFd foundations of cognitive science that can be a new way to explore the knowledge and get one thing to always remember in every reading time, even step by step is shown.
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Causal connectives in discourse processing: How differences in subjectivity are reflected in eye movements
TL;DR: This article investigated whether this type of discourse information is used during the online processing of causal connectives by focusing on the Dutch connectives want and omdat, both translated by because.
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Chapter 18 – Discourse Comprehension
Rolf A. Zwaan,David N. Rapp +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that comprehenders routinely and/or strategically keep track of protagonists, objects, locations, and events to build useful associations to answer the riddle, and they also assume that consecutively described events take place in the order in which they are described, and that no unmentioned event will have occurred between them.
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Activation and persistence of implicit causality information in spoken language comprehension.
TL;DR: The study indicated that implicit causality does not affect all referents to the same extent, rather it interacts with other cues in the discourse, especially when one of the referentS is already prominently in focus.
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Strategies of Discourse Comprehension
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Strategies of discourse comprehension
Teun A. van Dijk,Walter Kintsch +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define a set of rhetorical schemata to be discussed in what follows, and describe them as descriptions, not definitions, and the bus schema contains information that is neither nor-
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A capacity theory of comprehension: individual differences in working memory.
TL;DR: A theory of the way working memory capacity constrains comprehension is proposed, which proposes that both processing and storage are mediated by activation and that the total amount of activation available in working memory varies among individuals.
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Working Memory, Comprehension, and Aging: A Review and a New View
Lynn Hasher,Rose T. Zacks +1 more
TL;DR: This chapter discusses the theoretical and empirical literature that addresses aging and discourse comprehension and a series of five studies guided by a particular working memory viewpoint regarding the formation of inferences during discourse processing are described.
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Situation Models in Language Comprehension and Memory
TL;DR: The authors argue that the time has now come for researchers to begin to take the multidimensionality of situation models seriously and offer a theoretical framework and some methodological observations that may help researchers to tackle this issue.