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Peer reviewedSpooren, Wilbert – Discourse Processes, 1997
Analyzes different strategies used by speakers/writers and hearers/readers to deal with underspecified coherence relations, phrased in terms of Horn's (1984) Q- and R- principle. Presents data from the psycholinguistic literature on the interpretation of underspecified relations and data from language-acquisition research suggesting that both…
Descriptors: Coherence, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Processing
