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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. 787–791
Commentary

Formalist modeling and psychological reality

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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?
  • Note
  • References
Published online: 26 November 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.18077.wit
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