@article{2017,title={IS THERE A BIAS IN PROCESSING DISCOURSE RELATIONS? A CONTRASTIVE EXPERIMENTAL STUDY},abstractNode={Previous research claims that humans have cognitive bias when they process texts or utterances incrementally. They suggest that humans more easily infer causal and continuous relations rather than concessive or discontinuous discourse relations. This contrastive experimental study aims to further investigate this issue by comparing two different languages; English and Turkish. The 14 participants in this study were divided into two experimental groups. While one group was exposed to English-stimuli, the other experimental group was exposed to Turkish-stimuli. It was aimed for the participants to complete or continue the given discourse at the moment of reading. Through this procedure their active implicit processing was aimed to be measured. A pilot study was done prior to the treatment to validate the experimental items which was used in the study. The results of the study indicate that there was a higher preference towards causal or continuous connectives in processing upcoming discourse in both English and Turkish languages. It was also found that in relation to the Uniform Information Density Hypothesis, causal or continuous discourse connectives were expressed implicitly more frequently in comparison to concessive connectives in both English and Turkish languages.},author={Kübra ÖRSDEMİR},year={2017},journal={International Journal of Language Academy}}