Time in language: Event duration in language comprehension

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 41-79

  Coll Florit, Marta ^a   Gennari, Silvia P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Event duration; Event structure; Language comprehension; Semantics; Temporal language; Time perception

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REACTION TIME; READING; TIME PERCEPTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPREHENSION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME; READING; TIME PERCEPTION;

EID: 78649324506     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2010.09.002     Document Type: Article

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