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What is a text in psycholinguistics?
A coherent sequence of sentences that conveys meaning.
Name two types of cohesion.
Grammatical and lexical.
What is text comprehension?
The process of understanding a text.
What is context in text processing?
Background knowledge and situation influencing meaning.
What is text production?
The process of creating a text.
What is the difference between cohesion and coherence?
Cohesion = surface links; coherence = meaning connection.
Why is text considered a unit of psycholinguistics?
Because language is processed and understood in connected discourse, not isolated sentences.
How do readers achieve coherence?
By linking ideas using knowledge and context.
What is a narrative text?
A text that tells a story.
What is a descriptive text?
A text that describes people, places, or things.
A text is a sequence of sentences with meaning.
True
Coherence refers to logical connections between ideas.
True
Readers use inference to understand hidden meaning.
True
Inference is unnecessary if a text is clear.
False
Memory plays no role in understanding texts.
False
