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Information-Processing Model of Concept Formation – Is First Language Acquisition Universal?

By: Velina Slavova  
Open Access
|Sep 2018

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cait-2018-0035 | Journal eISSN: 1314-4081 | Journal ISSN: 1311-9702
Language: English
Page range: 3 - 22
Submitted on: Jan 14, 2018
Accepted on: Jun 25, 2018
Published on: Sep 19, 2018
Published by: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies
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