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ZUNINO, Gabriela M.; ABUSAMRA, Valeria  y  RAITER, Alejandro. INTERACTION BETWEEN WORLD KNOWLEGDE AND LINGUISTIC KNOWLEDGE IN THE COMPREHENSION OF CAUSAL AND CONTRACAUSAL RELATIONS: THE ROLE OF CONNECTIVES. Forma funcion, Santaf, de Bogot, D.C. [online]. 2012, vol.25, n.1, pp.15-34. ISSN 0120-338X.

The aim of this article is to study the role of world knowledge and linguistic -semantic- knowledge during the comprehension process of casual and contracasual relations. Our initial hypothesis: causal relations are easier to process than contracasual relations. Our specific objective: to verify this hypothesis in four conditions. Firstly, it was evaluated how people comprehend a casual or contracasual relation between two events that belong either to an "everyday" knowledge domain either to a scientific domain, over which the subjects do not have previous knowledge. Secondly, it was verified which role connectives with specific semantic content -causal and contracausal- take in those two texts types.

Palabras clave : causality; contracausality; world knowledge; connectives.

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