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Bilingual language cognition as a complex adaptive system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2022

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Nick C. Ellis*
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University of Michigan, Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
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Language as a Complex Adaptive System4E CognitionCognitive EcologyEmergentismEssentials of a Theory of Language Cognition

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , January 2023 , pp. 31 - 32
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