Generalized event knowledge activation during online sentence comprehension
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Generalized event knowledge activation during online sentence comprehension.
Recent research has demonstrated that knowledge of real-world eventsplays an important role inguiding online language comprehension. The present study addresses the scope of event knowledge activation during the course of comprehension, specifically investigating whether activation is limited to those knowledge elements that align with the local linguistic context.The present study addresses th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Memory and Language
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0749-596X
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2012.01.001