Commentary published In: Epistemological issue with keynote article “A Formalist Perspective on Language Acquisition” by Charles Yang
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:6] 2018
► pp. 712–716
Commentary
Evaluating Yang’s algorithms
An outline
Published online: 26 November 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.18066.de
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.18066.de
Article outline
- 1.Assumptions
- 2.Applicability and implications for a theory of language acquisition
- 3.Predictions for bilingualism
- 4.Final remarks
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