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Decoding Chomsky

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2017

DANIEL L. EVERETT
DANIEL L. EVERETT*
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*Address for correspondence: deverett@bentley.edu
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Language and Cognition , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , March 2018 , pp. 171 - 185
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