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Publication details [#28473]

Tapiero, Isabelle, Paul van den Broek and Marie-Pilar Quintana. 2002. The mental representation of narrative texts as networks: The role of necessity and sufficiency in the detection of different types of causal relations. Discourse Processes 34 (3) : 237–258.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

causality | inference | necessity | reading | text organization

Place, Publisher

Ablex Publishing Company

ISBN

0163-853X

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This study argues that causal properties (i.e. necessity and sufficiency) and distance in the text surface structure between cause and consequence (adjacent or nonadjacent) affect the strenght of causal relations.