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Context Availability and Sentence Availability Ratings for 3,000 English Words and their Association with Lexical Processing

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|Mar 2022

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.211 | Journal eISSN: 2514-4820
Language: English
Submitted on: Jul 9, 2021
Accepted on: Feb 18, 2022
Published on: Mar 9, 2022
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

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