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Learnability, hyperlearning, and the poverty of the stimulus

In J. Johnson, M. L. Juge & J. L. Moxley (eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting: General Session and Parasession on the Role of Learnability in Grammatical Theory. Berkeley: California: Berkeley Linguistics Society. pp. 498-513 (1996)

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