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Stefano Bertolo, ed. Language Acquisition and Learnability. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2001. Pp. viii + 247. US$22.95 (softcover).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Víctor M. Longa
Víctor M. Longa*
Affiliation:
University of Santiago de Compostela
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 47 , Issue 3-4 , December 2002 , pp. 250 - 253
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