The Now-or-Never bottleneck: A fundamental constraint on language.

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Published in Behav Brain Sci on April 14, 2015

Authors

Morten H Christiansen1, Nick Chater2

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Psychology,Cornell University,Ithaca,NY 14853.
2: Behavioural Science Group,Warwick Business School,University of Warwick,Coventry,CV4 7AL,United Kingdomnick.chater@wbs.ac.uk.

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