Taking on semantic commitments, II: Collective versus distributive readings

Cognition

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 87-104

  Frazier, Lyn ^a   Pacht, Jeremy M ^a   Rayner, Keith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Grammatical ambiguity; Semantic commitment; Vagueness

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SEMANTICS;

HUMANS; LANGUAGE; QUESTIONNAIRES; READING; SACCADES; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0033063363     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(99)00002-5     Document Type: Article

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