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Division of labor in vocabulary structure: insights from corpus analyses. / Christiansen, Morten H.; Monaghan, Padraic.
In: Topics in Cognitive Science, Vol. 8, No. 3, 07.2016, p. 610-624.

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Christiansen, MH & Monaghan, P 2016, 'Division of labor in vocabulary structure: insights from corpus analyses', Topics in Cognitive Science, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 610-624. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12164

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Christiansen MH, Monaghan P. Division of labor in vocabulary structure: insights from corpus analyses. Topics in Cognitive Science. 2016 Jul;8(3):610-624. Epub 2015 Sept 24. doi: 10.1111/tops.12164

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Christiansen, Morten H. ; Monaghan, Padraic. / Division of labor in vocabulary structure : insights from corpus analyses. In: Topics in Cognitive Science. 2016 ; Vol. 8, No. 3. pp. 610-624.

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