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Marit Westergaard, The acquisition of word order: Micro-cues, information structure, and economy (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 145). Amsterdam & Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins, 2009. Pp. xii+245.

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Marit Westergaard, The acquisition of word order: Micro-cues, information structure, and economy (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 145). Amsterdam & Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins, 2009. Pp. xii+245.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2011

Bernadette Plunkett
Bernadette Plunkett*
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University of York
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Author's address:Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UK[email protected]
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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 47 , Issue 3 , November 2011 , pp. 746 - 753
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