Children’s evaluation of computer-generated punning riddles

Pragmatics and Cognition

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 305-354

  Binsted, Kim ^a   Pain, Helen ^b   Ritchie, Graeme ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84989395543     PISSN: 09290907     EISSN: 15699943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/pc.5.2.06bin     Document Type: Article

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