Golding, J. M., Millis, K. M., Hauselt, J., & Sego, S. A. (1995). The effect of connectives and causal relatedness on text comprehension. In R. F. Lorch & E. J. O'Brien (eds.), Sources of coherence in reading (pp. 127-143). Hillsdale, England.

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Golding, J. M., Millis, K. M., Hauselt, J., & Sego, S. A. (1995). The effect of connectives and causal relatedness on text comprehension. In R. F. Lorch & E. J. O'Brien (eds.), Sources of coherence in reading (pp. 127-143). Hillsdale, England.

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This study is an expansion to the research on causal relatedness by investigating whether connectives affect the impact of causal relatedness on reading time and memory. Because authors use connectives, such as "therefore", to indicate a causal relation among clauses, the effect of a connective on reading time and memory would likely vary with levels of causal relatedness. This article discusses prior research on the role of connectives on text comprehension experiment. Experiment 1: the impact of causal connectives and levels of relatedness on text comprehension. Experiment 2: the impact of adversative connectives and levels of relatedness on comprehension.

The results of experiment 2 indicate that the presence of an adversative connective can affect text processing across levels of relatedness. Reading time for the statement following the connective 'but' was decreased compared to the no-connective conditions. This decrease is probably the result of subjects using the connective as an indication of the negation to follow.

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