The online processing of causal and concessive discourse connectives.
While there is a substantial amount of evidence for language processing being a highly incremental and predictive process, we still know relatively little about how top-down discourse based expectations are combined with bottom-up information such as discourse connectives. The present article report...
| Published in: | Linguistics Vol. 59; no. 2; pp. 417 - 449 |
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De Gruyter
Mar2021
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