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| Journal of Verbal Learning… | 1 |
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| Bock, Kathryn | 1 |
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Bock, Kathryn – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1977
An investigation of the relationship between a speaker's decision to treat portions of the information in a sentence as given or new and the syntactic form of the sentence produced. A tendency of English speakers to use alternative surface structure rules to present given information before new information is demonstrated. (AMH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Language Research, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics
