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Dan Isaac Slobin (ed.), The cross-linguistic study of language acquisition, Vols. 1&2. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1985. Pp. xi + 958, ix + 374. [The volumes are numbered consecutively, with Vol. 2. pp. 906–1332.]

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Paul Fletcher
Paul Fletcher
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Department of Linguistics, University of Reading.
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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , September 1989 , pp. 473 - 480
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