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Linguistic Parallelism

Linguistic Parallelism is a distractor development technique in which incorrect answer options are constructed to exhibit syntactic and semantic structures that closely mirror those of the correct answer, thereby increasing cognitive plausibility and reducing unintended linguistic cues to facilitate valid assessment of targeted knowledge or reasoning.

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Consonant duration in American English

N. Umeda · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America · 1977 · 246 citations

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Parallel structure: A source of facilitation in sentence comprehension

Lyn Frazier, Lori Taft, Tom Roeper et al. · Memory & Cognition · 1984 · 195 citations · Full text

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The Effects of Parallelism and Prosody in the Processing of Gapping Structures

Katy Carlson · Language and Speech · 2001 · 171 citations

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Linguistics in Cognitive Science: The state of the art

Ray Jackendoff · The Linguistic Review · 2007 · 161 citations

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Marking in discourse: “Birds of a feather”

María Marta Pereira Scherre, Anthony J. Naro · Language Variation and Change · 1991 · 120 citations

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Authors

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  1. MM
    María Marta Pereira Scherre

    Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    3 publications · 234 citations

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  2. PK
    Pia Knoeferle

    Bielefeld University, Germany

    2 publications · 55 citations

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  3. RJ
    Ray Jackendoff

    Brandeis University, United States

    2 publications · 247 citations

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  4. MW
    Matthew W. Crocker

    Saarland University, Germany

    2 publications · 55 citations

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  5. KA
    Kofi Agyekum

    University of Ghana, Ghana

    1 publications · 19 citations

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  1. Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    354 citations

  2. University of Edinburgh

    Edinburgh, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    144 citations

  3. University of Massachusetts Amherst

    Amherst Center, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    366 citations

  4. University of California San Diego

    San Diego, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    77 citations

  5. Saarland University

    Saarbrücken, Germany

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    69 citations

  6. University of Wisconsin–Madison

    Madison, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    46 citations

  7. Universidade de Brasília

    Brasília, Brazil

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

  8. Wuhan University

    Wuhan, China

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    13 citations

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  1. The Linguistic Review

    4 publications · 309 citations

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  2. Language and Speech

    2 publications · 225 citations

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  3. Language Variation and Change

    2 publications · 223 citations

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  5. Pragmatics & Cognition

    1 publications · 39 citations

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