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7 - The Influence of Chomsky on the Neuroscience of Language

from Part II - The Human Mind and Its Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2017

By
David Poeppel
Edited by
James McGilvray
James McGilvray
Affiliation:
McGill University, Montréal
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The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky , pp. 155 - 174
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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