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Grammars, parsers, and language acquisition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2004

EVAN KIDD
Affiliation:
Max Planck Child Study Centre, Manchester

Abstract

Drozd's critique of Crain & Thornton's (C&T) (1998) book Investigations in Universal Grammar (IUG) raises many issues concerning theory and experimental design within generative approaches to language acquisition. I focus here on one of the strongest theoretical claims of the Modularity Matching Model (MMM): continuity of processing. For reasons different to Drozd, I argue that the assumption is tenuous. Furthermore, I argue that the focus of the MMM and the methodological prescriptions contained in IUG are too narrow to capture language acquisition.

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Discussion
Copyright
2004 Cambridge University Press

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