The Importance of Causal Connections in the Comprehension of Spontaneous Discourse

CEVASCO, J., & VAN DEN BROEK, P.

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Conferencia; Society for Text and Discourse 14th Annual Meeting.; 2004

Society for Text and Discourse

We investigated the psychological processes in spontaneous discourse comprehension through the Causal Inference Maker model of narrative comprehension. In two experiments, subjects free recalled and answered questions about spontaneous discourse materials. In experiment 1, participants listened to a section of a radio transmission. In experiment 2, subjects read the transcription of the radio transmission. Results indicate that causal processing plays an important role in spontaneous discourse comprehension.