Disambiguating the ambiguity advantage effect in word recognition: An advantage for polysemous but not homonymous words
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Neurolinguistics
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0911-6044
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2006.02.001