Temporal Adverbials as Segmentation Markers in Discourse Comprehension

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 74-87

  Bestgen, Yves ^a   Vonk, Wietske ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Discourse comprehension; Nextness principle; Segmentation marker; Temporal adverbial expression; Topic shift processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042995351     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmla.1999.2670     Document Type: Article

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