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The Structural Design of Language

By Thomas S. Stroik, Michael T. Putnam

In this book, Stroik and Putnam take on Turing's challenge. They argue that the narrow syntax – the lexicon, the Numeration, and the computational system – must reside, for reasons of conceptual necessity, within the performance systems.

Academic Paper

Title:	Children rule, or do they (as far as innovations are concerned)?
Author:	Brian D Joseph
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Homepage:	http://ling.ohio-state.edu/~bjoseph/
Institution:	Ohio State University
Linguistic Field:	Historical Linguistics; Linguistic Theories
Abstract:	Meisel (hereafter, M) has offered a well-argued and tightly structured piece, discussing in a clear and compelling way a crucial topic in the understanding of language change. I applaud him for both the content and the presentation.

	This article appears in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition Vol. 14, Issue 2, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST .

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