Do Causal and Concessive Connectives Guide Emotional Expectancies in Comprehension? A Double-Task Paradigm Using Emotional Icons

Morera, Yurena; Gascón, José Antonio León; Escudero, Isabel; Vega, Manuel de

doi:10.1080/0163853x.2015.1137445

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“…They also scored worse for connectives that conveyed a concessive relation than those conveying conditional or consequence relations. These findings support the assumption that causal relations are not only easier to process than concessive ones (Murray 1997;Morera et al 2017) but are also mastered better by native speakers. In addition, our native participants scored significantly better for causal relations than for additive ones.…”

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Second Language Acquisition and the Mastery of Discourse Connectives: Assessing the Factors That Hinder L2-Learners from Mastering French Connectives

2020

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Even though the mastery of discourse connectives represents an important step toward reaching high language proficiency, it remains highly difficult for L2-learners to master them. We conducted an experiment in which we tested the mastery of 12 monofunctional French connectives conveying six different coherence relations by 151 German-speaking learners of French, as well as a control group of 63 native French speakers. Our results show that the cognitive complexity of the coherence relation and connectives’ frequency, both found to be important factors for native speakers’ connective mastery, play a minor role for the mastery by non-native speakers. Instead, we argue that two specific factors, namely the connectives’ register and meaning transparency, seem to be more predictive variables. In addition, we found that a higher exposure to print in L1, correlates with a better mastery of the connectives in L2. We discuss the implications of our findings in the context of second language acquisition.

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“…These were chosen because they imply various degrees of cognitive complexity. Based on previous studies (e.g., Murray 1997;Sanders et al 1992;Morera et al 2017) these relations can be roughly ordered along the following scale of cognitive complexity (left = least complex, right = most complex):…”

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Second Language Acquisition and the Mastery of Discourse Connectives: Assessing the Factors That Hinder L2-Learners from Mastering French Connectives

2020

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“…A reflection of this circumstance can be seen in the fact that concessives are acquired rather late(Di Meola 1997;Spooren & Sanders 2008;Knoepke et al 2016) and are more difficult to process(Morera et al 2017;Xu et al 2018) and to understand (Köhne & Demberg 2012) than, say, causatives. Furthermore, primary school children have some problems using them(Becker & Musan 2014;Dragon et al 2015;Knoepke et al 2016).…”

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German concessives as TPs, JPs and ActPs

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2020

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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The concessive relation is said to not be expressible by a central adverbial clause (CAC) but by a peripheral adverbial clause (PAC) or a non-integrated dependent clause (NonIC). This is true in the standard case. The paper argues that this ban on the appearance of the concessive as a CAC stems from the fact that the concessive relation standardly involves a judgement, which is due to a conception of an expected course of events that is associated as an implicature with the concessive relation. However, based on d’Avis (2016), it is shown that if a concessive just stands in opposition to a conditional that is salient in the context, it does not involve a judgement and can appear as a CAC.A judgement constitutes a private act of evaluation (Krifka to appear). It follows that in the standard case concessive clauses necessarily involve a richer semantic structure than just a core proposition. This has consequences for syntax. Following Krifka, the paper assumes that the private act of a judgement is syntactically represented in clausal structure by a J(udge)P(hrase). CACs do not contain a JP-projection, but PACs do.NonICs encode a speech act; in addition to a JP they also contain a Com(mitment)P(hrase) and an ActP(hrase). It is demonstrated that while concessives realised as PACs may host so-called weak root phenomena, concessives realised as NonICs may also host commitment modifiers and so-called strong root phenomena. Further distinguishing syntactic properties of concessives realised as PACs or as NonICs are discussed.

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“…Experimentally, these findings fit with the existing evidence that processing counter-argumentative relations is more demanding than processing causal relations, particularly in late integrative processes. Nevertheless, compared with previous research on the same semantic relations (Köhne & Demberg, 2013; Zunino, 2014, 2016, 2017), and with others focusing on concessive and causal ones (Morera et al, 2017; Xu et al, 2018), the current study has novel implications: the combination of two kinds of coherence, presented conjointly and marked by a phrasal connective unit containing a neuter pronoun in Spanish, revealed higher working memory and cognitive load demands.…”

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“…Particular attention has been devoted to the distance of the preceding antecedent (e.g., Carpenter & Just, 1977; Çokal, Sturt, & Ferreira, 2018; Duffy & Rayner, 1990; Ehrlich & Rayner, 1983; Fukumura & van Gompel, 2012), and to the gender and syntactic ambiguity that may arise in some contexts (Kennison, 2003; Kennison, Fernandez, & Bowers, 2009; Kennison & Trofe, 2003; Sturt, 2003, 2013). At the same time, causal and counter-argumentative semantic inter-sentential relations have also been studied intensely from different theoretical perspectives and with differing methodological techniques (Köhne & Demberg, 2013; Morera, León, Escudero, & de Vega, 2017; Parodi, Julio, & Recio, 2018; Prandi, 2004; Recio, Nadal, & Loureda, 2018; Sanders et al, 1992, 1993; Xu, Chen, Panther, & Wu, 2018; Zunino, 2017). Yet, rarely do studies center on them together focusing on the binary procedural instruction they provide to the reader (referential and relational), particularly from a distinctive discourse-oriented approach and with eye-tracking techniques (e.g., Ackerman, 1986; Çokal et al, 2018; Koornneef & Sanders, 2013).…”

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Stepping back to look ahead: neuter encapsulation and referent extension in counter-argumentative and causal relations in Spanish

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In discourse comprehension, if all goes well, people tend to create a rich and coherent mental representation of the events described in the text. To do so, referential and relational coherence must be established in order to construct a connected discourse. The objective of this follow-up eye-tracking study (N = 72) is to explore the existence of an interaction effect between two factors: (a) the extension of the referent (short and long antecedent), and (b) the semantic relation (counter-argumentativea pesar de, and causalpor), when processing the neuter pronounelloin texts written in Spanish. No previous study has systematically compared the on-line processing of texts in which different extensions of the encapsulated anaphoric antecedent by the neuter pronounello(‘this’ or ‘it’ in English) are presented in diverse marked semantic relations (causal and counter-argumentative). Based on three eye-tracking measures, we found distinctive patterns of reading behavior when anaphoric neuter reference and semantic relations must be processed conjointly in order to construct a coherent mental representation. The main findings show that reading longer and more complex antecedents encapsulated by the neutral pronounselloexerts more cognitive effort in late processing (Look Back measure), particularly when simultaneously and in the same discourse construction there is an explicitly marked counter-argumentative semantic relation. Implications for theories of referential and relational coherence are discussed.

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Do Causal and Concessive Connectives Guide Emotional Expectancies in Comprehension? A Double-Task Paradigm Using Emotional Icons

Cited by 19 publications

References 29 publications

Second Language Acquisition and the Mastery of Discourse Connectives: Assessing the Factors That Hinder L2-Learners from Mastering French Connectives

Second Language Acquisition and the Mastery of Discourse Connectives: Assessing the Factors That Hinder L2-Learners from Mastering French Connectives

German concessives as TPs, JPs and ActPs

Stepping back to look ahead: neuter encapsulation and referent extension in counter-argumentative and causal relations in Spanish

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