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Publication details [#27494]

Perfetti, Charles A. 1993. Why inferences might be restricted. Discourse Processes 16 (1-2) : 181–192.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

inference | reading | text, comprehension of

Place, Publisher

Ablex Publishing Corporation

ISBN

0163-853X

Journal WWW

www.erlbaum.com/Journals/Electronic/electronic.htm

Annotation

This paper argues that whilst the case for some passively triggered inferences during reading is good, the case for a limited set of goal-related inferences seems intermediate, and the case for predictive inferences appears to be less good.