Microgenesis of Language: Vertical Integration of Linguistic Mechanisms Across the Neuraxis

Handbook of the Neuroscience of Language

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 45-56

  Tucker, Don M ^a,b   Frishkoff, Gwen ^b,c   Luu, Phan ^a,b  

^a Electrical Geodesics Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-045352-1.00005-7     Document Type: Chapter

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