Commentary published In:
Epistemological issue with keynote article “The illusion of language acquisition” by William O’Grady[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3:3] 2013
► pp. 296–300
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 3:3] 2013
► pp. 296–300
Commentary
The delusion of processing
Article outline
- The complementarity between processing studies and acquisition studies
- The need for discussing cases of acquisition that do not impact on processing in an obvious way
- The independent need for grammatical primitives in the processing account
- The need for comparing like with like for the evaluation of competing analyses
- Conclusion
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