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A. Sommerstein, The Sound Pattern of Ancient Greek, in Journal of Linguistics 11 (1975) 126-131.

L. Lupas, Phonologie du grec attique, in Journal of Linguistics 11 (1975) 122-126.

N.V. Smith, The Acquisition of Phonology, in Journal of the International Phonetic Association 4 (1974) 51-6.

D. Lightfoot, Principles of Diachronic Syntax, in Linguistics 18 (1980) 137-146.

R. Lass, On Explaining Language Change, in Linguistics 19 (1981) 171-8.

On roots of language. Review article of D. Bickerton, Roots of Language, in Language and Communication 3 (1983) 83-97.

S. Romaine, Socio-historical Linguistics, in Linguistics 21 (1983) 629-644.

Cognitive clouds and semantic shadows. Review article of R. Jackendoff, Semantics and Cognition, in Language and Communication 5 (1985) 69-93.

J.A. Hawkins, Word Order Universals, in Lingua 70 (1986) 191-7.

N. Hyams, Language Acquisition and the Theory of Parameters; T. Roeper and E. Williams, Parameter Setting, in Journal of Linguistics 24 (1988) 527-31.

G. Lakoff, Women, Fire and Dangerous Things, in International Journal of Lexicography 3 (1990) 149-154.

E. Bates, I. Bretherton and L. Snyder, From First Words to Grammar, in Linguistics 28 (1990) 549- 554.

B. MacWhinney and E. Bates, The Crosslinguistic Study of Sentence Processing, in Journal of Child Language 20 (1993) 463-471.

S.L. Tsohatzidis, Meanings and prototypes: Studies in Linguistic Categorization, in International Journal of Lexicography 6 (1993) 215-221.

W. Noble and Ian Davidson. Human evolution, language and mind: A psychological and archaeological inquiry, in Language 73 (1997) 869-871.

F. Ungerer and H.-J. Schmid, An introduction to cognitive linguistics, in Journal of Pragmatics 31 (1999) 139-142.

R. Jackendoff, The architecture of the language faculty, in Language 74 (1998) 850-3.

P. Lieberman, Human language and our reptilian brain, in Language 77 (2001), 837-8.

Shorter reviews - last five years

J. Honey, Language is power, in The Sunday Times (14 September 1997).

Roget's Thesaurus of English words and phrases, in The Times Education Supplement (4 September 1998).

D. Crystal, Language play, in The Times Higher Education Supplement (13 November 1998).

T. Nevalainen and L. Kahlas-Tarkka, To explain the present: Studies in the changing English language in honour of Matti Rissanen, in The Review of English Studies. New Series vol. 50, no. 197 (1999) 70-2.

A. Wierzbicka, Understanding cultures through their key words, in International Journal of Lexicography 12.1 (1999) 87-9.

J. Rée, I see a voice: Language, deafness and the senses, in The Times (14 January 1999).

T. McArthur, The English languages, in The Review of English Studies. New Series vol. 50, no. 199 (1999) 359-60.

S. Pinker, Words and rules, in Literary Review (Dec 1999/Jan 2000), 42-3.

G. Sampson, Educating Eve, in The Times Higher Education Supplement (7 January 2000).

R. Obendorfer, Weak forms in present-day English, in Review of English Studies, New Series vol. 51, no. 201 (2000), 95-6.

W. Calvin and D. Bickerton, Lingua ex machina, in New Scientist (25 March 2000), 48.

S. Romaine, Cambridge History of the English Language, vol. 4, in The Times Higher Education Supplement (28 April 2000), 22-3.

W. Croft, Explaining language change: An evolutionary approach, in The Times Higher Education Supplement (12 October 2001).

J. McMorris, The warden of English: The life of H.W. Fowler, in Oxford Today (Michaelmas 2001), 43.

P. Hosali, Butler English: Form and function, in Review of English Studies, New Series vol. 53, no. 211 (2002), 423-4.

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