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Richard D. Sperber, Deborah Davies, Edward C. Merrill, Charley McCauley, Cross-Category Differences in the Processing of Subordinate-Superordinate Relationships, Child Development, Vol. 53, No. 5 (Oct., 1982), pp. 1249-1253
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