Why does discourse degrade when 'given' information is presented as 'new' within a spoken weather report?

💡 Explanation

Discourse degrades when 'given' information is presented as 'new' because the Inference Load increases; listeners unnecessarily attempt to integrate already known information as novel. Therefore, processing efficiency drops and coherence suffers, rather than alternative explanations such as syntactic ambiguity dominating.

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