"Advantage of first mention" is __________
a. characters and ideas that were mentioned in the very first sentence, at the beginning of the entire episode; they retain a special significance
b. the process of comprehension in Gernsbacher's theory, of building a mental representation of the meaning of sentences
c. the linguistic process of alluding to a concept by using another name (e.g., pronouns or synonym); use of this will require the reader/listener to find the connections to the other concepts in the sentence
d. the mental processes of reference, implication, and inference during language comprehension; it is required for the process of constructing a connection between concepts
Answer: a
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