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Neil Smith and Ianthi-Maria Tsimpli. The Mind of a Savant: Language Learning and Modularity. Oxford: Blackwell. 1995. Pp. xviii + 243. US$49.95 (hardcover).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 June 2016

Bruce Connell
Bruce Connell*
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University of Oxford
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Canadian Journal of Linguistics/Revue canadienne de linguistique , Volume 41 , Issue 4 , December 1996 , pp. 378 - 381
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Copyright © Canadian Linguistic Association 1996

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