RETRACTED ARTICLE: The Online Processing of Causal and Concessive Relations: Comparing Native Speakers of English and German

Statement of Retraction

We, the Editors and Publisher of Discourse Processes have retracted the following article:

Alice Blumenthal-Dramé, The Online Processing of Causal and Concessive Relations: Comparing Native Speakers of English and German, Discourse Processes 58(7), 642–661. https://doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2020.1855693.

This retraction was requested by the author after a group of researchers replicating her study identified an error in the data analysis which impacted the reliability of the original findings. Thus, it was agreed by all parties that the author should retract the article and that the author may submit a revised manuscript to the journal with the editor’s permission. The author would like to thank these researchers for their assistance in finding the data errors.

We have been informed in our decision-making by our policy on publishing ethics and integrity and the COPE guidelines on retractions.

The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as “Retracted”.

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Retraction statement- HDSP/ Blumenthal-Dramé Article