The construction of meaning

Topics in Cognitive Science

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 346-370

  Kintsch, Walter ^a   Mangalath, Praful ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Construction integration model; LSA; Meaning; Predication; Semantics; Topics

Indexed keywords

COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 79961245507     PISSN: 17568757     EISSN: 17568765     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2010.01107.x     Document Type: Article

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