Linguistic strategies for ad hoc categorization: theoretical assessment and cross-linguistic variation
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Folia Linguistica
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1614-7308,0165-4004
DOI: 10.1515/flih-2018-0001