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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
► pp. 712–716
Commentary

Evaluating Yang’s algorithms

An outline

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Article outline
  • 1.Assumptions
  • 2.Applicability and implications for a theory of language acquisition
  • 3.Predictions for bilingualism
  • 4.Final remarks
  • References
Published online: 26 November 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.18066.de
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