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title = "Lexical concreteness in narrative",
author = "Flor, Michael and
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booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Storytelling",
month = aug,
year = "2019",
address = "Florence, Italy",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
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doi = "10.18653/v1/W19-3408",
pages = "75--80",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Lexical concreteness in narrative](https://aclanthology.org/W19-3408) (Flor & Somasundaran, 2019)
ACL
- Michael Flor and Swapna Somasundaran. 2019. Lexical concreteness in narrative. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Storytelling, pages 75–80, Florence, Italy. Association for Computational Linguistics.