The wind chilled the spectators, but the wine just chilled: Sense, structure, and sentence comprehension

Cognitive Science

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 610-628

  Hare, Mary ^a   Elman, Jeffrey L ^b   Tabaczynski, Tracy ^a   McRae, Ken ^c  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Event memory; Language comprehension; Lexical semantics; Psycholinguistics; Sentence processing

Indexed keywords

EID: 73249129495     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1551-6709.2009.01027.x     Document Type: Article

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