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How not to undermine the goal of an acquisition theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2004

TOM ROEPER
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts

Abstract

Much of Drozd's penetrating review of Investigations in Universal Grammar (IUG), beyond noting countless lamentable misattributions of ideas and inconsistencies, evaluates its methodology. The standardization of methodology in IUG can, I believe, undermine our understanding of acquisition more than it supports it. It is a pity if we lose the real value of their useful experimental refinements of existing experiments (and several novel ones in semantics).

Type
Discussion
Copyright
2004 Cambridge University Press

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