Processing Discourse: Evidence from a Semantics-Informed Psycholinguistic Study

Authors

  • Violeta Amélia Magalhães Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
  • Juliana Novo Gomes Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
  • Purificação Silvano Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln15ano2026a5

Keywords:

Psycholinguistic processing of discourse, discourse relations, psycholinguistic-semantics interface, online processing, causality

Abstract

This work consists of a psycholinguistic study on discourse relations (DRs) in European Portuguese (EP), framed by a semantic basis. The aim of the article is to provide an updated theoretical framework on the main key aspects related to the study of the psycholinguistic processing of DRs, as well as to share some recent data on an online processing task of DRs in EP. In the first part of the article, we report the main themes related to processing of DRs, addressing aspects related to the processing of lexical connectives, issues related to causality and continuity, as well as aspects related to linear sentence order. In the second part of the article, recent data on the study of processing of DRs in EP are presented and discussed.

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Published

2026-10-28

How to Cite

Magalhães, V. A., Novo Gomes, J., & Silvano, P. (2026). Processing Discourse: Evidence from a Semantics-Informed Psycholinguistic Study. Journal of the Portuguese Linguistics Association, (15). https://doi.org/10.26334/2183-9077/rapln15ano2026a5

Issue

No. 15 (2026): Journal of the Portuguese Linguistics Association

Section

Volume completo

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Copyright (c) 2026 Violeta, Juliana Novo Gomes, Purificação Silvano

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