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Thirty papers written for this volume discuss various biological, social, psychological, and linguistic theories of why there are elements universal to all languages. American, Dutch, German, and British contributors draw from psycholinguistics and artificial intelligence as well as linguistics proper. For advanced students. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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