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Epistemological issue with keynote article “A Formalist Perspective on Language Acquisition” by Charles Yang
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:6] 2018
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Some consequences of the Tolerance Principle

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Article outline
  • 1.Clarifications and corrections
  • 2.Children, adults, and vocabularies
  • 3.Learnability and the theory of grammar
  • 4.Conclusion
  • Note
  • References
Published online: 26 November 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.00022.yan
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