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Attending to contextual cues to convey pragmatic meaning: An exploratory eye-tracking study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2025

Naoko Taguchi*
Affiliation:
English, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, USA
Saisai Xu
Affiliation:
College of Foreign Languages, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China
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Corresponding author: Naoko Taguchi; Email: naoko.taguchi@nau.edu

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