The effect of additional characters on choice of referring expression: Everyone counts

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 521-536

  Arnold, Jennifer E ^a,b   Griffin, Zenzi M ^c,d  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Discourse; Language production; Pronouns; Proper names; Reference; Word selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947538719     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2006.09.007     Document Type: Article

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