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Diversity driven but cognitively constrained: Boas meets Chomsky (Response to commentators)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2026

Henry Davis,
Carrie Gillon and
Lisa Matthewson
Henry Davis*
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia
Carrie Gillon*
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia
Lisa Matthewson*
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
*
[henry.davis@ubc.ca]
[carrie.gillon@asu.edu]
[lisa.matthewson@ubc.ca]
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Language , Volume 91 , Issue 3 , September 2015, pp. e127 - e143
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Copyright © 2015 Linguistic Society of America

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