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The wrong two faces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2026

Stephen Wechsler  and
Larisa Zlatić
Stephen Wechsler*
Affiliation:
University of Texas
Larisa Zlatić*
Affiliation:
University of Texas and Larisa Zlatic Language Services
*
Department of Linguistics, University of Texas, 1 University Station B5100, Austin, TX 78712-0198 [wechsler@mail.utexas.edu]
[larisaz@lztranslation.com]
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Language , Volume 88 , Issue 2 , June 2012 , pp. 380 - 387
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Copyright © 2012 by Linguistic Society of America

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