Syntactic focusing structures influence discourse processing

Discourse Processes

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 285-304

  Birch, Stacy L ^a   Albrecht, Jason E ^b   Myers, Jerome L ^c  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

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EID: 3042731886     PISSN: 0163853X     EISSN: 15326950     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/S15326950dp3003_4     Document Type: Article

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