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Timing is Everything: Temporal Scaffolding of Semantic Surprise in Humor

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Main Authors:	Ma, Yuxi, Peng, Yongqian, Lyu, Junchen, Zhang, Chi, Zhu, Yixin
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2026
Subjects:	Computation and Language
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