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. 522–527
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 5:4] 2015
► pp. 522–527
Commentary
On the link between complex predictive abilities and memory in language acquisition
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