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Stefano Bertolo, ed. Language Acquisition and Learnability. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. viii + 247. US$22.95 (softcover).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Víctor M. Longa*
Affiliation:
University of Santiago de Compostela

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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 2002

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