Representing complex narrative goal structures: Competing memory-based and situational influences

Discourse Processes

Volumn 39, Issue 2-3, 2005, Pages 189-204

  Singer, Murray ^a   Richards, Eric ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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EID: 19944376885     PISSN: 0163853X     EISSN: 15326950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15326950dp3902&3_5     Document Type: Review

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