Evolutionary developmental linguistics: Naturalization of the faculty of language

Language Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 33-59

  Locke, John L ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Biology; Development; Evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 56049113753     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2007.09.008     Document Type: Article

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