How to infer temporal relations in discourse?
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How can readers and listeners infer temporal relations in discourse? One of the basic inferential task in discourse comprehension consists in inferring time direction, that is, in determining the time of the event relative to the thread of discourse. I show that the computation of directional inference is the result of the interaction contextual and linguistic information. Finally, I answer the question of the order of backward causal inferences.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005