Hunting the Fox of Word Learning: Why "Constraints" Fail to Capture It

Developmental Review

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 29-80

  Deák, Gedeon O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1006/drev.1999.0494     Document Type: Article

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