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The validity of clausal processing strategies at the discourse level
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This article showed that the clausal processing strategy is operative in the processing of an auditory speech signal and that the strategy is also operative in a larger discourse context, and they extended the functional interactionist model of language proposed by Bever and Fodor, Bever, and Garrett (1974) to account for discourse phenomena.Abstract:
Considerable research in psycholinguistics has sought to test the hypothesis that the clause is a relevant segmentation unit in the processing of speech. The current interest in linguistic contexts and discourse analysis has raised the question of the validity of the clausal processing strategy suggested by Beyer, Garrett, and Hurtig (1973). Two sentence fragment completion experiments are presented to demonstrate that the clausal processing strategy is operative in the processing of an auditory speech signal and that the strategy is also operative in the larger discourse context. The functional interactionist model of language proposed by Bever (1970) and Fodor, Bever, and Garrett (1974) can be extended to account for discourse phenomena by characterizing the relationship of the psychological processes operative in the encoding of sentences and discourses in the following way: The sentence (clause) is the online perceptual unit while the discourse (proposition/logical event space) is the unit of cognitiv...read more
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