Inference in conversation of adults with traumatic brain injury

Brain Injury

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1118-1126

  Johnson, Jacqueline E ^a   Turkstra, Lyn S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain injury; Communication; Implicature; Inference; Language; Pragmatics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONVERSATION; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERENCE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY;

EID: 84863652825     PISSN: 02699052     EISSN: 1362301X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02699052.2012.666370     Document Type: Article

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