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Science 19 January 2007:
Vol. 315. no. 5810, p. 332
DOI: 10.1126/science.1135673
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LINGUISTICS:
Language Learning Through Selection

Jeffrey Lidz and Lisa Pearl

The Infinite Gift
How Children Learn and Unlearn the Languages of the World
by Charles D. Yang
Scribner (Simon and Schuster), New York, 2006. 285 pp. $25, C$34.50. ISBN 9780743237567.
Writing for nonspecialists, the author discusses the processes by which children learn to talk and to understand speech.
The reviewers are at the Department of Linguistics, 1401 Marie Mount Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA. E-mail: jlidz{at}umd.edu; llsp{at}umd.edu

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