Direct causation in the linguistic coding and individuation of causal events

Cognition

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-48

  Wolff, Phillip ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

Causal events; Direct causation; Individuation; Linguistic coding

Indexed keywords

FORMAL LANGUAGES; SPEECH CODING;

LINGUISTIC CODING;

LINGUISTICS;

ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIVIDUALIZATION; LINGUISTICS; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0037405388     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(03)00004-0     Document Type: Article

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