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William Snyder, Child language: The parametric approach. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. xii+209.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2008

Rosalind Thornton*
Affiliation:
Macquarie University
*
Author's address:Department of Linguistics & Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia. Rosalind.Thornton@ling.mq.edu.au

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