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Variability: Definitions of language and language learning

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 September 2019

Virginia Valian
Virginia Valian*
Affiliation:
Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center
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Address for correspondence: Virginia Valian, E-mail: virginia.valian@hunter.cuny.edu
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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , January 2020 , pp. 48 - 49
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