Semantic and episodic effects on bridging inferences

Discourse Processes

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 179-199

  Myers, Jerome L ^a,d   Cook, Anne E ^b   Kambe, Gretchen ^a   Mason, Robert A ^c   O'Brien, Edward J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Tobin Hall ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0001667377     PISSN: 0163853X     EISSN: 15326950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15326950dp2903_1     Document Type: Article

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