The facilitating effect of connectives on discourse processing has been found to be smaller in result relations, compared to other relations (e.g., concession). In addition, connectives are ...

Imagine a brick wall without mortar. You can arrange the bricks as neatly as you like and the wall might even stand up for a while, but as soon as someone leans against it you know exactly what’s ...

The remaining 56% of the connectives that occur in the BioDRB corpus do not appear in the PDTB corpus as connectives. Examples include “followed by,” “due to,” and “in order to”, which may suggest ...

Discourse connectives are words or phrases that connect or relate two coherent sentences or phrases and indicate the presence of discourse relations. Automatic recognition of discourse connectives may ...

1 School of Foreign Languages, Xuchang University, Xuchang, China 2 Research Center for Language and Language Education, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China The correct use of connectives ...

Conjunctives and connectives are linking words which are used all the time in language to join phrases and sentences together. They are generally used at the beginning of or in the middle of a ...