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Polysemantic lexical access: Evidence from laboratory‐induced double entendersFootnote1

Michael T. Motley Associate professor of rhetoric, University of California, Davis
,
Carl T. Camden Assistant professor of communication, Cleveland State University,
&
Bernard J. Baars Assistant professor of psychology, SUNY‐Stony Brook,
Pages 193-205 | Published online: 02 Jun 2009

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