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Semantic distinctions and memory for complex sentences

Herbert H. Clark Department of Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University
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Eve V. Clark Department of General Linguistics, University of Edinburgh
Pages 129-138 | Received 18 Nov 1967, Published online: 29 May 2007

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