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Biolinguistics vol 5 issue 3 published

Biolinguistics Vol 5, No 3 is now available!

http://www.biolinguistics.eu/index.php/biolinguistics/issue/view/19

Articles

170 Space and the Vision–Language Interface: A Model-Theoretic Approach
Francesco-Alessio Ursini

Reviews

226 Quod Homines tot Sententiae — There Are as Many Opinions as There Are Men
Lluís Barceló-Coblijn

Forum

254 Lenneberg’s Views on Language Development and Evolution and Their
Relevance for Modern Biolinguistics
Cedric Boeckx & Victor M. Longa

274 The Character of Mind
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