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John A. Hawkins, Cross-linguistic variation and efficiency (Oxford Linguistics). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. Pp. xx + 271.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2015

Peter W. Culicover*
Affiliation:
The Ohio State University
*
Author's address: Department of Linguistics, The Ohio State University, 222 Oxley Hall, 1712 Neil Ave., Columbus, OH 43210-1298, USAculicover.1@osu.edu

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