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Publication details [#1799]
Brown, Roger and Deborah Fish. 1983. The psychological causality implicit in language. Cognition 14 : 237–273. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Journal WWW
Annotation
The paper sets forth evidence that a theory of psychological causality is implicit in natural language itself. The evidence is based on an analysis of the causality implicit in English verbs that name interactions, either mental or behavioral, between two persons.