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Input versus intake – a commentary on Ambridge, Kidd, Rowland, and Theakson's ‘The ubiquity of frequency effects in first language acquisition’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2015

MEREDITH L. ROWE
MEREDITH L. ROWE*
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Harvard University, Graduate School of Education
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Journal of Child Language , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , March 2015 , pp. 301 - 305
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