Verification of text ideas during reading

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 574-591

  Singer, Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

comprehension monitoring; Comprehension: text; factive verbs; Memory; memory based processing; memory based text processing; Negation; nonfactive; Pragmatics: negation; Text; Verbs: factive

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645744111     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2005.11.003     Document Type: Article

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