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SEMANTICS IN ACQUISITION

STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS

VOLUME 35

Managing Editors

Lyn Frazier, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Thomas Roeper, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Kenneth Wexler, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.

Editorial Board

Robert Berwick, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.

Matthew Cocker, Saarland University, Germany

Janet Dean Fodor, City University of New York, New York

Angela Friederici, Max Planck Institute of Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany

Merrill Garrett, University of Arizona, Tucson

Lila Gleitman, School of Education, University of Pennsylvania

Chris Kennedy, Northwestern University, Illinois

Manfred Krifka, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany

Howard Lasnik, University of Connecticut at Storrs

Yukio Otsu, Keio University, Tokyo

Andrew Radford, University of Essex, U.K.

The titles published in this series are listed at the end of this volume.

SEMANTICS IN

ACQUISITION

Edited by

VEERLE VAN GEENHOVEN

Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen,

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