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Michael A. Arbib, How the Brain Got Language: The Mirror System Hypothesis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Pp. xvii + 413.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2013

Fredrik Heinat
Fredrik Heinat*
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Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University, SE – 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden. [email protected]
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 36 , Issue 1 , May 2013 , pp. 89 - 94
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