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Commentary on “Perceptual Beginnings to Language Acquisition” by Janet Werker

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2018

Jenny R. Saffran
Jenny R. Saffran*
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University of Wisconsin–Madison
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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 39 , Issue 4 , July 2018 , pp. 761 - 763
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