Implicit causality bias in English: A corpus of 300 verbs

Behavior Research Methods

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 124-135

  Ferstl, Evelyn C ^a   Garnham, Alan ^a   Manouilidou, Christina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Causality; Corpus studies; Psycholinguistics; Thematic roles; Verbs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; EMOTIONS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNET; LANGUAGE; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 79953701924     PISSN: 1554351X     EISSN: 15543528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13428-010-0023-2     Document Type: Article

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