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SUBMITTER: Rohde H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5552188 | biostudies-other | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Rohde Hannah H Tyler Joseph J Carlson Katy K
Glossa (London) 20170531 1
Many factors are known to influence the inference of the discourse coherence relationship between two sentences. Here, we examine the relationship between two conjoined embedded clauses in sentences like <i>The professor noted that the student teacher did not look confident and (that) the students were poorly behaved</i>. In two studies, we find that the presence of <i>that</i> before the second embedded clause in such sentences reduces the possibility of a forward causal relationship between th ...[more]