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Steven Pinker. Learnability and cognition: the acquisition of argument structure. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1989. Pp. xv + 411.

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Steven Pinker. Learnability and cognition: the acquisition of argument structure. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1989. Pp. xv + 411.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Richard Ingham
Richard Ingham
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Department of Linguistic Science, University of Reading, Whiteknights, P.O. Box 218, Reading, UK.
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Journal of Child Language , Volume 19 , Issue 1 , February 1992 , pp. 205 - 211
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