Expectations from relative clauses: Real-time coherence updates in discourse processing

J. Hoek; Hannah Rohde; J. Evers-Vermeul; T.J.M. Sanders

doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104581

Expectations from relative clauses: Real-time coherence updates in discourse processing

J. Hoek, Hannah Rohde, J. Evers-Vermeul, T.J.M. Sanders

University of Edinburgh

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Abstract

When processing a text, comprehenders use available cues to anticipate both upcoming content and the dependencies that comprise the structure of the growing discourse. In an eye-tracking while reading experiment, we test discourse updating in passages in which dependencies are implicit and the segments convey content that is not required to participate in any coherence-driven inference. This study provides strong evidence of comprehenders' ability to build implicit non-obligatory discourse structure in real time.

Original language	English
Article number	104581
Pages (from-to)	1-10
Number of pages	10
Journal	Cognition
Volume	210
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104581
Publication status	Published - May 2021

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the SNSF Sinergia project MODERN [grant number CRSII1_147653], as well as by a Leverhulme Trust Prize in Languages and Literatures [PLP-2016-128, awarded to H. Rohde]. We are very grateful to Merel Scholman (Saarland University), Kate Cain, Liam Blything, Gill Francey, and Nicola Currie (Lancaster University) for their help in running the experiment.

Funding Information:
This work was supported by the SNSF Sinergia project MODERN [grant number CRSII1_147653 ], as well as by a Leverhulme Trust Prize in Languages and Literatures [PLP-2016-128, awarded to H. Rohde]. We are very grateful to Merel Scholman (Saarland University), Kate Cain, Liam Blything, Gill Francey, and Nicola Currie (Lancaster University) for their help in running the experiment.

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