What are implicit causality and consequentiality?

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 780-788

  Pickering, Martin ^a   Majid, Asifa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

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ARTICLE; COGNITION; GRAMMAR; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; THEMATIC ANALYSIS; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 34648837321     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960601119876     Document Type: Article

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