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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2026

Brian MacWhinney
Brian MacWhinney*
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University of Denver
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Abstract

This paper indicates how sentence processing depends upon the active construction of a perspective, which is the way a speaker or a listener becomes actively involved in a sentence. For this reason, the perspective is usually the starting point of the sentence. A number of linguistic and psycholinguistic studies are reviewed in the light of this approach to sentence processing.

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Language , Volume 53 , Issue 1 , March 1977 , pp. 152 - 168
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Copyright © 1977 by Linguistic Society of America

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