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Widening Contexts for Processability Theory: Theories and issues
Edited by Anke Lenzing, Howard Nicholas and Jana Roos
[Processability Approaches to Language Acquisition Research & Teaching 7] 2019
► pp. 391–398

Chapter 17
How does PT’s view of acquisition relate to the challenge of widening perspectives on SLA?

Article outline
  • PT and emergence
  • PT and the data underpinning the emergence criterion
  • Emergence and mastery
  • Emergence is embedded in other processes
  • What does acquisition look like for variational features?
  • Where to now?
  • References
Published online: 28 November 2019
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https://doi.org/10.1075/palart.7.17nic
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