Parallel processing and sentence comprehension difficulty
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Parallel processing and sentence comprehension difficulty
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عنوان ژورنال: Language and Cognitive Processes
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0169-0965,1464-0732
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2010.492228