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Minimalism and Beyond: Radicalizing the interfaces
Edited by Peter Kosta, Steven L. Franks, Teodora Radeva-Bork and Lilia Schürcks
[Language Faculty and Beyond 11] 2014
► pp. 304–314

Computations at the interfaces in child grammar

| University of Potsdam
The paper investigates the operations regulating grammar on the basis of experimental child data, and suggests that there are significant computational differences in the acquisition of single interface phenomena and multiple interface phenomena. This finding has direct implications for the precise mechanisms and nature of a learnability account grounded in the Minimalist Program model.
Published online: 24 September 2014
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lfab.11.12rad
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