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6 - Third Factors in Language Design: Some Suggestions from Quantum Field Theory

from Part I - The Science of Language: Recent Change and Progress

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2017

By
Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini  and
Giuseppe Vitiello
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James McGilvray
James McGilvray
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McGill University, Montréal
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The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky , pp. 134 - 152
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