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A small child attempts to ask a pharmacist for some ipecacuanha, but only succeeds in babbling excrementally. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.

Speech genes.

The bilingual child : early development and language contact / Virginia Yip, Stephen Matthews.

Language learnability and language development / Steven Pinker ; with new commentary by the author.

The lexicon in acquisition / Eve V. Clark.

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Speech genes.

The bilingual child : early development and language contact / Virginia Yip, Stephen Matthews.

A small child attempts to ask a pharmacist for some ipecacuanha, but only succeeds in babbling excrementally. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph, c. 1900.

Language learnability and language development / Steven Pinker ; with new commentary by the author.

The lexicon in acquisition / Eve V. Clark.