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. 516–521
Commentary

Syntactic processing and acquisition

| Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania
| Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania
Published online: 31 December 2015
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.5.4.13poz
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