Predictions, fast and slow

Sekerina, Irina A.

doi:10.1075/lab.5.4.16sek

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. 532–536

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Predictions, fast and slow

Irina A. Sekerina | College of Staten Island and the Graduate Center, City University of New York

Published online: 31 December 2015

https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.5.4.16sek

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