Commentary published In:
Epistemological issue with keynote article “A Formalist Perspective on Language Acquisition” by Charles Yang[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:6] 2018
► pp. 727–732
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:6] 2018
► pp. 727–732
Commentary
The sufficiency principle hyperinflates the price of productivity
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