Showing papers by "Gail McKoon published in 1980"

TL;DR: The inference processes involved in anaphoric reference were examined and it is concluded that these methods involve considerable problems in experimental design and theoretical interpretation and are also limited in the kinds of information they can provide about inference processing.

TL;DR: In this article, a priming technique is presented that allows assessment of distances between propositional (idea) units in the memory representations of texts, and a representation of the meaning of a paragraph can be obtained by listing the propositions of the paragraph and then connecting those propositions that share an argument.