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Current interest in discourse performance has been motivated by the explanatory power provided by recent developments in discourse grammar. Discourse, unlike sentences, does not have a strict set of rules that specify grammaticality. Nor does discourse have a specified length. Although discourse is often described as a series of connected sentences, it may be a single word, a phrase, a sentence, or an infinite combination of all these forms. The length is specified in terms of communicative function (i.e., discourse is a unit of language that conveys a message). Discourse grammar provides a linguistic description of the properties that contribute to acceptability or well-formedness of discourse. There are several discourse types (e.g., narrative, procedural, expository, and conversational) that differ in structure and information content.
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Ulatowska, H.K., Allard, L., Chapman, S.B. (1990). Narrative and Procedural Discourse in Aphasia. In: Joanette, Y., Brownell, H.H. (eds) Discourse Ability and Brain Damage. Springer Series in Neuropsychology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3262-9_8
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