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(B) This paper continues the development of a general theory of comprehension, focusingon story understanding the role that syntax plays therein. Partly as a reaction against thealmost exclusive concern of some linguists and psycholinguists with syntax, syntacticquestions play only a minor role in the current work on discourse processing, textcomprehension, and conversation. Maybe this is too strong a statement as far as the field as awhole is concerned, but it certainly characterizes my own work in this area. Syntax plays arole in that it directs the reader how to parse a text into meaning units (propositions), but allthe most interesting processes psychologically seem to occur at the level of meaning andlanguage use.    This imbalance needs to be redressed. Such an essential feature of language asgrammar surely must be more important than we have given it credit for; and a recent paperby Givon (1989), in which he proposes that grammatical cues function as mental processinginstructions, may give us some clues as to the manner in which syntactic cues are used indiscourse processing. I shall show how Givon’s ideas can be incorporated into a model ofdiscourse comprehension, how such an extended model could account for some salientempirical results that have been reported previously by others as well as myself, and I shallargue that by paying attention to the role of syntactic cues in processing, we can greatlyexpand the power of our model and throw some light on some currently controversial issues.Specifically, I shall show how only a single verbal signal may determine whether a text  representation will be organized linearly or in terms of a topic-subtopic structure, and howsyntactic cues may indicate the presence of important causal relations in a text. Thus, it ispossible to arrive at rather similar mental representations of a text either via weak but generalsyntactic strategies, or by more powerful, knowledge-based, but domain-limited processingstrategies.
73. Where does this passage most likely appear?
(A) A scholarly monograph.
(B) A curriculum guidelines.
(C) A psychological magazine.
(D) A preface of a grammar book.

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答案：A
難度：適中0.5
統計：A(0),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)

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