Language Acquisition: Do as You Hear

@article{Thoret2002LanguageAD,
  title={Language Acquisition: Do as You Hear},
  author={Hugo Th{\'e}oret and {\'A}lvaro Pascual-Leone},
  journal={Current Biology},
  year={2002},
  volume={12},
  pages={R736-R737}
}
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