Speaker-External Versus Speaker-Internal Forces on Utterance Form: Do Cognitive Demands Override Threats to Referential Success?

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1466-1481

  Lane, Liane Wardlow ^a   Ferreira, Victor S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

language production; pragmatics; psycholinguistics; verbal communication

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LINGUISTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ATTENTION; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SIZE PERCEPTION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 56449110559     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0013353     Document Type: Article

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