Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater. 2016. Creating Language: Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing

Sampson, Geoffrey

doi:10.1075/ld.7.2.07sam

Review published In: Language and Dialogue
Vol. 7:2 (2017) ► pp.277–283

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Book review

Morten H. Christiansen and Nick Chater. 2016. Creating Language: Integrating Evolution, Acquisition, and Processing

Reviewed by

Geoffrey Sampson | Sussex University, UK

Published online: 27 October 2017

https://doi.org/10.1075/ld.7.2.07sam

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