Lexical and contextual cue effects in discourse expectations: experimenting with German 'zwar...aber' vs. English 'sure...but'

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I am happy to answer any questions via email (<jschwab@uos.de>) or OSF comments. ---- Discourse processing has been argued to be aided by expectations generated from various sources, but previous studies have only investigated individual expectation-generating cues. In the current study, we investigate how both isolated and combined discourse signals affect comprehenders' on-line processing of discourse relations in German and English. We find that strong lexical cues facilitated processing in both languages, while global contextual cues further reduced processing times only in German. When combined, the two types of cues exerted independent effects. Rating data additionally suggests a preference for contextual cueing in both languages, but a dispreference for additional lexical signals in English.

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