Mechanism of implicit causality in L2 comprehension: Testing the empty-slot theory through coreference and coherence biases
Published online on May 12, 2026
Abstract
Second Language Research, Ahead of Print.
This study investigated how implicit causality (IC) bias occurs in second language (L2) comprehension by testing the empty-slot theory’s core assumption: IC coreference bias emerges as an epiphenomenon of explanatory coherence bias. A story-continuation ...
This study investigated how implicit causality (IC) bias occurs in second language (L2) comprehension by testing the empty-slot theory’s core assumption: IC coreference bias emerges as an epiphenomenon of explanatory coherence bias. A story-continuation ...