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Rigid strings and flaky snowflakes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2015

GEOFFREY SAMPSON
GEOFFREY SAMPSON*
Affiliation:
University of South Africa
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*Address for correspondence: tsampsgr@unisa.ac.za.
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Language and Cognition , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , December 2016 , pp. 587 - 603
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