This is the style sheet for the special issue of Research on Language and Computation on ambiguity and semantic judgments. I copied it from the instructions for authors on the Springer web site, since Springer do not offer a permanent link to that page. I also removed the sections on online manuscript submission and reviewing procedure, since they are not relevant to the special issue. –Ron Artstein.
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