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Monitoring episodes were analyzed according to whether checking remained at local lexical or formal confirmation (SM) or involved testing candidate solutions against meaning, discourse relations, rhetorical purpose, or target-language fit (EM).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The central contrast concerned the regulatory endpoint of focal episodes rather than a uniform group difference. Several higher-scoring cases articulated sustained EM, whereas several lower-scoring cases included checks that ended once immediate lexical or structural uncertainty had been reduced. The distinction was neither categorical nor person-fixed: both forms occurred within the same participant, and P12 moved from dictionary-driven SM to discourse-based EM during the task. Within-case sequences further revealed narrowing, recovery, and maintenance of monitoring depth. Prolonged lexical search, repeated re-parsing, and unresolved uncertainty co-occurred with narrowing in some episodes.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Because cognitive load was not directly measured and concurrent verbalization may become less complete as task demands rise, these patterns are interpreted as hypothesis-generating rather than as evidence of a causal mechanism. 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