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. 770–775
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:6] 2018
► pp. 770–775
Commentary
The principles of scientific inquiry
Caroline F. Rowland | Language Development Department, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands | ESRC LuCiD Centre, University of Liverpool, UK
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