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Implicit Causality, Implicit Consequentiality and Semantic Roles
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Crinean, Marcelle; Garnham, Alan – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2006
Stewart, Pickering, and Sanford (1998) reported a new type of semantic inference, implicit consequentiality, which they suggest is comparable to, although not directly related to, the well-documented phenomenon of implicit causality. It is our contention that there is a direct relation between these two semantic phenomena but that this relation…
Descriptors: Semantics, Verbs, Language Processing, Sentences
Discourse Processing and Text Representation from a "Mental Models" Perspective.
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Garnham, Alan; Oakhill, Jane – Language and Cognitive Processes, 1992
The mental models approach is outlined for the following topics: combinatory semantics, anaphora, and inference. The flexibility of the language-processing system is discussed. (18 references) (Author/LB)
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Foreign Countries, Inferences, Language Processing