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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>If this happened, it would still not prevent undergraduates from thinking that Chomsky and Skinner are the only two people ever to have written anything about language acquisition.<BR>
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Katie Alcock<BR>
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Katie Alcock, DPhil<BR>
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<HR ALIGN=CENTER SIZE="3" WIDTH="95%"><B>From: </B>"r.n.campbell" <r.n.campbell@stir.ac.uk><BR>
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A broader topic (which includes this one and is equally worth discussing) is that Noam Chomsky and all his works are also obsolete. For me, it will be a happy day when this is so.<BR>
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