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D. I. Slobin, Crosslinguistic evidence for the language-making capacity and Bowerman, M., What shapes children's grammars? Reviewed by S. Pinker, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA, USA.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Richard M. Weist
Richard M. Weist
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SUNY College at Fredonia, Fredonia, New York 14063, USA.
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Journal of Child Language , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , June 1989 , pp. 456 - 466
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