The time course of the influence of implicit causality information: Focusing versus integration accounts

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 423-443

  Stewart, Andrew J ^a   Pickering, Martin J ^a   Sanford, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Implicit causality; pronoun; anaphor; verb; language comprehension

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041993673     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.1999.2691     Document Type: Article

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