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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"discourse comprehension"”.
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Computational modeling of discourse comprehension
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Effects of Topical Structure on Discourse Comprehension and Production (Text Analysis)
… One was to develop a scheme for the analysis of discourse structure called "topical structure," and the other was to test the psychological validity of the developed analytic scheme. "Topic" at the sentence level and "discourse topic" at the discourse level were the two notions used in analyzing …
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Recognition memory reveals just how contrastive contrastive accenting is
… Participants listened to short recorded discourses that contained contrast sets with two items (e.g. British scientists and French scientists); a subsequent continuation picked out one item from the set. Pitch accenting on the critical word in the continuation was manipulated between …
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Foreign Language Comprehension: Understanding the Centrality Deficit
… knowledge. This study provides insight into L2 discourse comprehension and suggests that evaluating the quality of L2 readers' text recall is a worthwhile assessment that can reveal deficiencies in L2 text representations.</p>
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Analysis of Electrophysiological Markers and Correlated Components of Neural Responses to Discourse Coherence
… with developmental disorders of speech comprehension, the severity of disruption can persist and vary from limiting occupational opportunities to lower performance outcomes. Previous research has reported an event-related potential (ERP) neural positivity over right hemisphere lateral …
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Language-Mediated Event Representations
… research from the spatial cognition and language comprehension literature has shown that we can form a mental representation of space that is rich in detail, maintaining categorical (i.e. room-by-room) as well as Euclidean distance (i.e. absolute distance), this research has primarily used tasks …
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The comprehension of figurative language : electrophysiological evidence on the processing of irony
Diese Dissertation untersucht das Verstehen figurativer Sprache, im Besonderen die zeitliche Verarbeitung von verbaler Ironie. In sechs Experimenten wurde mittels ereignis-korrelierter Potentiale (EKP) die Gehirnaktivität beim Verstehen ironischer Äußerungen im Vergleich zu entsprechenden …
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In ruimtes vasgekeer: 'n Kognitiewe benadering tot metafore in dekoloniale diskoers
Afrikaans: Die kognitiewe linguistiek voer aan dat meeste abstrakte konsepte slegs in terme van metafore bedink en verstaan kan word. Dekolonialiteit as abstrakte konsep is steeds ’n vurige besprekingspunt in die konteks van hoër onderwys in Suid-Afrika. Hierdie verhandeling beoog om die verband …