On the use of verb-based implicit causality in sentence comprehension: Evidence from self-paced reading and eye tracking

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 445-465

  Koornneef, Arnout W ^a   Van Berkum, Jos J A ^b,c  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Immediacy; Implicit causality; Interpersonal verbs; Language comprehension; Prediction; Pronoun resolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645741247     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2005.12.003     Document Type: Article

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