On "Basic Levels" and the Categorization of Objects in English Discourse
Pamela A. Downing
- Vol. 3, Iss: 3, pp 475-487
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Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (1977), pp. 475-487.Abstract:
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