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I wish to thank Keith Donnellan, David Kaplan, John Perry, Ed Stabler, Tim Stowell and Daniel Valois for useful discussion, and Bernie Kobes, Mark Richard and an anonymous referee for invaluable comments. This paper was written at the University of California, Los Angeles, and during a visit at the Centre de Recherche en Épistémologie Appliquée, Paris. I am grateful to both institutions, as well as to the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and to the Government of France, for their support.
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Mercier, A. Consumerism and language acquisition. Linguist Philos 17, 499–519 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00985833
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00985833