Constructing Meaning: The Role of Affordances and Grammatical Constructions in Sentence Comprehension

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 508-529

  Kaschak, Michael P ^a   Glenberg, Arthur M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; construction grammar; sentence comprehension; denominal verbs

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000796179     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.2000.2705     Document Type: Article

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