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New perspectives on duality of patterning: Introduction to the special issue

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2014

Bart de Boer ,
Wendy Sandler  and
Simon Kirby
Bart de Boer
Affiliation:
Artificial Intelligence laboratory, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels, Belgium. E-mail: bart@arti.vub.ac.be
Wendy Sandler
Affiliation:
University of Haifa. E-mail: wsandler@research.haifa.ac.il
Simon Kirby
Affiliation:
Edinburgh University. E-mail: simon@ling.ed.ac.uk
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duality of patterninglanguage evolutioncombinatorial structurecompositional structure
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Language and Cognition , Volume 4 , Special Issue 4: New perspectives on duality of patterning , December 2012 , pp. 251 - 259
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Copyright © UK Cognitive Linguistics Association 2012

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