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  • Reading Comprehension

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  • Readers typically monitor text coherence and consistency through immediate, nonstrategic validation processes.
  • Deficient validation can occur, particularly when discourse anomalies are embedded in given (presupposed) sentence information.
  • Previous research identified reading time 'consistency effects' in declarative sentences, showing sensitivity to text discrepancies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether readers detect discourse inconsistencies in interrogative (question) constructions.
  • To compare coherence monitoring in interrogatives versus declarative sentences.
  • To explore potential linguistic explanations for differences in consistency detection.

Main Methods:

  • Five experiments were conducted using interrogative sentence constructions known to mask discourse inconsistencies.
  • Reading times were measured to assess 'consistency effects' (sensitivity to text discrepancies).
  • Experiments controlled for readers' knowledge of critical concepts.

Main Results:

  • No significant consistency effects were found across five interrogative conditions in four experiments.
  • Consistency effects were observed with declarative but not interrogative constructions in experiments 2-4.
  • The lack of effects in interrogatives was not due to readers' lack of knowledge.

Conclusions:

  • Readers exhibit reduced sensitivity to discourse inconsistencies embedded within interrogative constructions compared to declaratives.
  • The structure of interrogative sentences appears to hinder the immediate validation processes that support coherence monitoring.
  • Verb resolutivity, a linguistic construct, may offer a cognitive-scientific explanation for these observed differences.