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The effects of lexical- and sentence-level contextual cues on Chinese word segmentation
Linjieqiong Huang1, Xingshan Li2,3
1CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 16 Lincui Road, Beijing, China.
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
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