The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective 2007.pdf

The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective
Human Cognitive Processing (HCP)
Human Cognitive Processing is a bookseries presenting interdisciplinary
research on the cognitive structure and processing of language and its
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Editors
Marcelo Dascal Raymond W. Jr. Gibbs Jan Nuyts
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Volume 21
The Language of Memory in a Crosslinguistic Perspective
Edited by Mengistu Amberber
The Language of Memory
in a Crosslinguistic Perspective
Edited by
Mengistu Amberber
University of New South Wales
John Benjamins pany
Amsterdam / Philadelphia
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The language of memory in a crosslinguistic perspective / edited by Mengistu Amberber.
p. cm. (Human Cognitive Processing, issn 1387-6724 ; v. 21)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Psycholinguistics. 2. Memory. I. Amberber, Mengistu, 1961-
2007
401'.9--dc22 2007025378
isbn 978 90 272 2375 3 (Hb; alk. paper)
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