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3 - Complexity in Speech: Teasing Apart Culture and Cognition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2017

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Bart de Boer
Edited by
Salikoko S. Mufwene ,
Christophe Coupé  and
François Pellegrino
Salikoko S. Mufwene
Affiliation:
University of Chicago
Christophe Coupé
Affiliation:
Université Lumière Lyon II
François Pellegrino
Affiliation:
Université Lumière Lyon II
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Complexity in Language
Developmental and Evolutionary Perspectives
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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