Deferred interpretations: Why starting Dickens is taxing but reading Dickens isn't

Cognitive Science

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 181-192

  McElree, Brian ^a   Frisson, Steven ^a   Pickering, Martin J ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coercion; Logical metonymy; Metonym; Semantics; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645467195     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15516709cog0000_49     Document Type: Article

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