Difficult poetry processing: Reading times and the narrativity hypothesis
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Narrativity and non-Narrativity.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0963-9470,1461-7293
DOI: 10.1177/0963947017704726