The role of causality in discourse processing: Effects of expectation and coherence relations

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1414-1437

  Mak, Willem M ^a   Sanders, Ted J M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Causality; Coherence relations; Connectives; Discourse; Reading

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; EXPECTATION; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; INTEGRATION; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; READING;

EID: 84886436096     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2012.708423     Document Type: Article

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