Less is More: On the Tolerance Principle as a manifestation of Maximize Minimal Means

Biberauer, Theresa

doi:10.1075/lab.18080.bib

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. 707–711

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Less is More

On the Tolerance Principle as a manifestation of Maximize Minimal Means

Theresa Biberauer | University of Cambridge | Stellenbosch University | University of the Western Cape

Published online: 26 November 2018

https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.18080.bib

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