Processing Hungarian: The role of topic and focus in language comprehension
This work examines the role of topic and focus in sentence processing, with particular attention to Hungarian. It is proposed that sentence topic and contrastive focus have a privileged relation to any prior discourse-related phrases, allowing them to influence the processing of the current sentence...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
1997
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9809391 |