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Publication details [#11793]

Singer, Marcus G., Dana Harkness and Susan T. Stewart. 1997. Constructing Inferences in Expository Text Comprehension. Discourse Processes 24 (2/3) : 199–228. 30 pp.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

coherence | inferencing | text type, processing of | text, comprehension of

Place, Publisher

Ablex Publishing Company

ISBN

0163-853X

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

Inference processing experiments lead the researchers to conclude that two factors dominate inference processing in the comprehension of expository text: linguistic information present in the discourse and information processing constraints of the reading task.