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Language Acquisition - Suzanne Romaine, The language of children and adolescents: The acquisition of communicative competence. Oxford and New York: Blackwell, 1984. Pp. xiii + 297.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2008

Keith Walters
Keith Walters
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Department of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712
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Language in Society , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , June 1987 , pp. 270 - 275
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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