The role of adversative connectives and causal connections in the recall and recognition of written and spoken discourse

CEVASCO, J. & VAN DEN BROEK, P.

Valencia

Conferencia; Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse; 2013

Universidad de Valencia

This study examined the role of adversative connectives and causal connectivity in spoken and written discourse comprehension. Participants listened to or read an excerpt of a radio transmission, with or without connectives. Readers recalled and recognized more statements than listeners. Statements that had many causal connections were recalled and recognized more often than those with fewer connections. There was no effect of connective presence, but there was an interaction between connective presence and modality of presentation.