title: Time and Causation in Discourse: Temporal Proximity, Implicit Causality, and Re-mention Biases.
abstract: Using referential processing in discourse featuring implicit causality verbs as a test case, we demonstrate how a discourse's causal and temporal dimensions interact. We show that referential processing is affected by multiple discourse biases, and that these biases do not have uniform effects. In three discourse continuation experiments, we show that the bias to re-mention a particular referent in discourse involving implicit causality verbs is not only affected by the verb's implicit causality bias, but also by the discourse's temporal structure, which at times, can even override the implicit causality bias. Our results add to the growing number of studies that show how various discourse dimensions interact in discourse processing.
authors.affiliation: Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Schützenstraße 18, 10117, Berlin, Germany. dery@zas.gwz-berlin.de.
authors.forename: Jeruen E
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5235-9264
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Dery
authors.affiliation: Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Schützenstraße 18, 10117, Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Dagmar
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bittner
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D011578:Psycholinguistics; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Discourse; Implicit causality; Referential processing; Temporal relations