Global versus local?: Cognitive and linguistic factors in evaluating text quality

Berman, Ruth A.; Nir, Bracha

doi:10.1075/hcp.24.26ber

In:New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics
Edited by Vyvyan Evans and Stéphanie Pourcel
[Human Cognitive Processing 24] 2009
► pp. 421–440

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Cognitive and linguistic factors in evaluating text quality

Global versus local?

Ruth A. Berman

Bracha Nir

Published online: 24 June 2009

https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.24.26ber

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