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Connective Comprehension in Adults: The Influence of Lexical Transparency, Frequency, and Individual Differences
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Merel Scholman; Marian Marchal; Vera Demberg – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2024
The comprehension of connectives is crucial for understanding the discourse relations that make up a text. We studied connective comprehension in English to investigate whether adult comprehenders acquire the meaning and intended use of connectives to a similar extent and how connective features and individual differences impact connective…
Descriptors: Adults, Reading Comprehension, Connected Discourse, Semantics