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Lo que pasa es que can be found in Spanish with its original pseudo-cleft value (‘what happens is that’), but it is also very frequently found as a grammaticalized construction whose meaning is now procedural. This article offers a description of the pragmatic meaning and the uses of the grammaticalized construction lo que pasa es que in Spanish, which encodes both a contrastive and a causal meaning...
This article reports on an experimentinvestigating the impact of causal discoursemarkers (connectives and signaling phrases) onthe comprehension of expository texts in L1 andL2. Although several psycholinguistic studieshave investigated the impact of connectives andlexical markers of text structure oncomprehension (i.e. off-line), there is noconsensus on the exact effect of explicitdiscourse markers...
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