Commentary
Formalist modeling and psychological reality
Article outline
- 1.Where do candidate grammars and rules originate?
- 2.Do children really use variational learning?
- 3.How is compliance tested?
- 4.What happens when a rule is chosen? What happens when it’s dethroned?
- 5.How does the mathematics map into a mechanism?
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