Interpretation-based processing: A unified theory of semantic sentence comprehension

Cognitive Science

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-44

  Budiu, Raluca ^a   Anderson, John R ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ACT R; Computational modeling; Language comprehension; Metaphor; Moses illusion; Semantics; Text priming

Indexed keywords

EID: 1142303065     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogsci.2003.10.001     Document Type: Article

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