Modularity and principles and parameters: Avoiding the 'cognitively ugly'

First Language

Volumn 16, Issue 46, 1996, Pages 001-019

  Foster Cohen, Susan H ^a,b  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b British Institute in Paris   (France)

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EID: 0009098203     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/014272379601604601     Document Type: Article

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