The Influence of the German Capitalization Rules on Reading
German orthography systematically marks all nouns (even other nominalized word classes) by capitalizing their first letter. It is often claimed that readers benefit from the uppercase-letter syntactic and semantic information, which makes the processing of sentences easier (e.g., Bock et al., 1985,...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2020-03-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Communication |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fcomm.2020.00015/full |