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Rachel Lagunoff · Issues in Applied Linguistics · 1994

There have been considerable problems of communication between theoretical linguistics and other disciplines concerned with the study of natural language, and it seems that many psychologists, students of artificial intelligence, applied linguists, and literary critics have abandoned the idea that they could learn very much from the results reached in theoretical linguistics-so much the worse for theoretical Hnguistics and so much the worse for the interdisciphnary study of natural language.

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