Commentary published in:
Epistemological issue with keynote article “The role of language processing in language acquisition” by Colin Phillips and Lara Ehrenhofer
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 5:4] 2015
► pp. 487–493

[ p. 487 ]Incorporating learning into theories of parsing

| The Australian National University, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language
Published online: 31 December 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.5.4.08kid
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