Information Accretion and Reduction in Text Processing: Inferences

Discourse Processes

Volumn 16, Issue 1-2, 1993, Pages 193-202

  Kintsch, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

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EID: 0001468381     PISSN: 0163853X     EISSN: 15326950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01638539309544837     Document Type: Article

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