Polysemy Advantage with Abstract But Not Concrete Words
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Concrete Not Abstract
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Psycholinguistic Research
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0090-6905,1573-6555
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-014-9337-z