Noun-phrase anaphora and focus: The informational load hypothesis

Psychological Review

Volumn 106, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 748-765

  Almor, Amit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MEMORY; MENTAL FUNCTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; READING; SEMANTICS;

HUMANS; MEMORY; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0033210006     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.106.4.748     Document Type: Article

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