Elizabeth Bates and the Search for the Roots of Human Language
In the 1970s a young psychologist challenged a popular theory of how we acquire language, launching a fierce debate that continues to this day
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In the 1970s a young psychologist challenged a popular theory of how we acquire language, launching a fierce debate that continues to this day
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