Usage-based and emergentist approaches to language acquisition

Linguistics

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 383-411

  Behrens, Heike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

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EID: 62449313667     PISSN: 00243949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/LING.2009.014     Document Type: Article

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