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10 - Faculties and Modules: Chomsky on Cognitive Architecture

from Part II - The Human Mind and Its Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2017

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John Collins
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James McGilvray
James McGilvray
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McGill University, Montréal
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The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky , pp. 217 - 234
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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