Abstract
Summary The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of different ways of expressing temporal relations on the understanding of sentences. Fifty subjects were presented with sentences describing two temporally related events and a question on the order of occurrence of these events. The temporal relation was expressed either by temporal morphemes, by opposition between verb tenses, or by logical relations between the events. The results have shown that temporal morphemes were the most efficient eues, while verb tense opposition was the least. When none of the three eues was available, the subjects interpreted the presentation order of the two events as reflecting their order of occurrence.
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