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Good-enough linguistic representations and online cognitive equilibrium in language processing

Hossein KarimiDepartment of Psychology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Fernanda FerreiraDepartment of Psychology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA, USA
Pages 1013-1040 | Received 03 Sep 2014, Accepted 08 May 2015, Published online: 23 Jun 2015

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