Your wish is my command: Convention and context in interpreting indirect requests

Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts.

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When Nouns Surface as Verbs

Eve V. Clark, Herbert H. Clark · Language · 1979 · 1.2K citations

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On the process of comparing sentences against pictures

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Sentence comprehension: A psycholinguistic processing model of verification.

Patricia A. Carpenter, Marcel Adam Just · Psychological Review · 1975 · 767 citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Psychology +12

Spilling the beans on understanding and memory for idioms in conversation

Raymond W. Gibbs · Memory & Cognition · 1980 · 545 citations · Full text

Language Studies, Linguistics, Pragmatics +9