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Sanders, Ted J.M.; Gernsbacher, Morton Ann – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2004
Accessibility is one of the most important challenges at the intersection of linguistic and psycholinguistic studies of text and discourse processing. Linguists have shown how linguistic indicators of referential coherence show a systematic pattern: Longer linguistic forms (like full lexical NPs) tend to be used when referents are relatively low…
Descriptors: Psycholinguistics, Linguistic Theory, Language Processing, Reading Comprehension