Cognitive Processes and Mechanisms in Language Comprehension: The Structure Building Framework

Psychology of Learning and Motivation - Advances in Research and Theory

Volumn 27, Issue C, 1991, Pages 217-263

  Gernsbacher, Morton Ann ^a  

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DOI: 10.1016/S0079-7421(08)60125-5     Document Type: Article

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