Identifying topic sentencehood

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 647-664

  Mccarthy, Philip M ^a   Renner, Adam M ^a   Duncan, Michael G ^a   Duran, Nicholas D ^a   Lightman, Erin J ^a   McNamara, Danielle S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; SEMANTICS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

COGNITION; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; NARRATION; SEMANTICS;

EID: 50849111715     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BRM.40.3.647     Document Type: Conference Paper

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