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    Pavel Materna, Eva Hajičová & Petr Sgall

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Materna, P., Hajičová, E. & Sgall, P. Redundant answers and topic-focus articulation. Linguist Philos 10, 101–113 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00603394

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