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Marit Westergaard, The acquisition of word order: Micro-cues, information structure, and economy (Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 145). Amsterdam & Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins, 2009. Pp. xii+245.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2011

Bernadette Plunkett*
Affiliation:
University of York
*
Author's address:Department of Language and Linguistic Science, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, UKbernadette.plunkett@york.ac.uk

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