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Direct linkCowles, H. Wind; Ferreira, Victor S. – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2012
Four experiments investigate the influence of topic status and givenness on how speakers and writers structure sentences. The results of these experiments show that when a referent is previously given, it is more likely to be produced early in both sentences and word lists, confirming prior work showing that givenness increases the accessibility…
Descriptors: Sentences, Syntax, Word Lists, Experiments
