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Emergentism, parsimony and the development of process models of language acquisition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2000

JULIAN M. PINE
JULIAN M. PINE
Affiliation:
University of Nottingham
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Abstract

In their very balanced critique of emergentist approaches to language, Sabbagh & Gelman focus on two main issues. The first is the question of whether language acquisition can be explained by domain-general learning mechanisms. The second is the question of the degree of specification that emergentist models of language acquisition actually provide.

Type
REVIEW ARTICLE AND DISCUSSION
Information
Journal of Child Language , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , October 2000 , pp. 756 - 758
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

Thanks to Fernand Gobet for his comments on an earlier version of this commentary.