censorship has a long history in iran that has interfered with text production, i.e., original writing as well as translation. this phenomenon seems to have marked the borderline between the government and the ‘enlightened’ intellectuals throughout history in iran. different governments have delineated ‘redlines’ for authors and translators and dealt with these constructors of culture based on ...

We report on results from using the multivariate readability model SVIT to classify texts into various levels. We investigate how the language features integrated in the SVIT model can be transformed to values on known criteria like vocabulary, grammatical fluency and propositional knowledge. Such text criteria, sensitive to content, readability and genre in combination with the profile of a st...

This version is made available in accordance with publisher policies. Please cite only the published version using the reference above. Abstract Two experiments explored how learners allocate limited time across a set of relevant on-line texts, in order to determine the extent to which time allocation is sensitive to local task demands. The first experiment supported the idea that learners will...

Many theories of discourse structure rely on the idea that the segments comprising the discourse are linked through inferred relations such as causality and temporal contiguity. These theories suggest that the resulting discourse is represented hierarchically. Two experiments examine some of the implications of these hierarchical structures on the perceived coherence of texts. Experiment 1 show...