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. 2021 Aug:213:104531.
doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104531. Epub 2021 Jan 26.

The violin case

Lila R Gleitman  1 , Claire Gleitman  2
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The violin case

Lila R Gleitman et al. Cognition. 2021 Aug.

Abstract

Three humorous episodes, reproduced here, illustrate debates that played out on the pages of Cognition under the aegis of its founding editor, Jacques Mehler. These are the formal structure of language, the mechanisms by which speech unfolds in time, and the constrained creativity of ordinary language use.

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