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Language cognition: comments on Ambridge, Kidd, Rowland, and Theakston ‘The ubiquity of frequency effects in first language acquisition’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2015

NICK C. ELLIS  and
DAVE C. OGDEN
NICK C. ELLIS
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
DAVE C. OGDEN
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
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Journal of Child Language , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , March 2015 , pp. 282 - 286
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