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How do speakers avoid ambiguous linguistic expressions?
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ferreira, V. S., Slevc, L. R., & Rogers, E. S.
- Venue
- Cognition
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2005-07
- Volume
- 96
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 263-284
- ISSN
- 0010-0277 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2111441350
- Cited by
- 161
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 38.93
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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