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## Short Abstract ##
Direct discourse (DD) speech reports contribute information which is
foreign to the current discourse, a distinction shown to be relevant at
early stages of reading. Yet, over two naturalness-judgement studies, we
demonstrate that late-stage processing does not reflect any secondary
status for DD. These results are challenging for a hypothesis derived from
work on appositive relative clauses (ARCs), that all peripheral discourse
units are downweighted during late-stage processing. Further work must
revisit whether and how the processor is sensitive to distinctions at the
level of discourse structure.
[1]: https://ucsc.zoom.us/j/705533236