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Download full textChafe, Wallace – 1987
Both writers and readers experience auditory imagery of intonations, accents, and hesitations in written language, and some aspects of this "written language prosody" are made partially overt through punctuation. Two studies explored the relationship between written language prosody and punctuation. The first study asked people to read…
Descriptors: Authors, Cognitive Processes, Intonation, Language Processing
