Presentation
Differential Processing of Aspectual Meanings by Higher and Lower-Skilled Readers during Narrative Comprehension
Society for Text and Discourse 25 Annual Meeting
(2015)
Abstract
The role of grammatical aspect in establishing causal relationships across sentences in narratives was examined in this study. Lower and higher-skilled comprehenders read short narratives that included causes and effects. Unexpectedly, lower-skilled readers seem to have better recall during processing if the cause was in the imperfective (was passing) rather than the perfective (passed) aspect. It appears lower-skilled readers encode aspect moment-to-moment, and higher-skilled readers create representations that are ‘good enough.’
Disciplines
Publication Date
2015
Location
Minneapolis, MN
Citation Information
Andreas Schramm. "Differential Processing of Aspectual Meanings by Higher and Lower-Skilled Readers during Narrative Comprehension" Society for Text and Discourse 25 Annual Meeting (2015) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/andreas-schramm/13/