A developmental investigation of processing costs in implicature production

Language Acquisition

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 347-375

  Pouscoulous, Nausicaa ^a,b,c   Noveck, Ira A ^a,b   Politzer, Guy ^a   Bastide, Anne ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c INSTITUT JEAN NICOD   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 8   (France)

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EID: 36049035043     PISSN: 10489223     EISSN: 15327817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10489220701600457     Document Type: Article

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