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Eilers, Sarah; Tiffin-Richards, Simon P.; Schroeder, Sascha – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2019
Children struggle with the resolution of pronouns during reading, but little is known about the sources of their difficulties. We conducted a longitudinal eye tracking experiment with 70 children in the final years of primary school. The children read sentences with a contextual resolution preference in which gender was either an informative…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Eye Movements, Longitudinal Studies, Elementary School Students
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Ferstl, Evelyn C.; Israel, Laura; Putzar, Lisa – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
One crucial property of verbal jokes is that the punchline usually contains an incongruency that has to be resolved by updating the situation model representation. In the standard pragmatic model, these processes are considered to require cognitive effort. However, only few studies compared jokes to texts requiring a situation model revision…
Descriptors: Humor, Reading Comprehension, Eye Movements, Gender Differences