The role of prior context in the comprehension of abstract and concrete sentences |
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Authors: | V. M. Holmes M. Rundle |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, 3052 Parkville, Victoria, Australia |
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Abstract: | Summary In two experiments the hypothesis was tested that abstract sentences become as easy to understand as concrete sentences when given appropriate prior context. Paragraph contexts and sentences followed by a comprehension question were presented in a speeded reading task. The results showed that the abstract sentences remained significantly more difficult to process than the concrete sentences in both experiments. The hypothesis that the concreteness effect is a function of differential context availability was therefore not supported. It was proposed that lexical differences and/or differences in ease of propositional integration may underlie the effect. |
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