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Epistemological issue with keynote article “A Formalist Perspective on Language Acquisition” by Charles Yang
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:6] 2018
► pp. 749–752
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Learning a second language takes more than math

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Published online: 26 November 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.18055.mon
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