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Direct linkWolff, Phillip – Cognition, 2003
This research proposes a new theory of direct causation and examines how this concept plays a key role in the linguistic coding and individuation of causal events. According to the "no-intervening-cause hypothesis," a causal chain can be described by a single-clause sentence and construed as a single event if there are no intervening causers…
Descriptors: Sentences, Linguistics, Cognitive Processes, Language Processing
