Perception and presupposition in real-time language comprehension: Insights from anticipatory processing

Cognition

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 26-50

  Chambers, Craig G ^a   Juan, Valerie San ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Affordances; Presupposition; Reference; Sentence comprehension

Indexed keywords

ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; EVALUATION; EYE MOVEMENT; HEARING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

COGNITION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 44249091169     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.12.009     Document Type: Article

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