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Peer reviewedSpolsky, Bernard – Applied Linguistics, 1989
Describes attempts to formalize and characterize a theory of communicative competence, focusing on the advantages of a preference model (which identifies and grades learning variables in order of importance) and of models developed on the premise of parallel distributed processing (which suggest that such rule-based processing are in fact gross…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Communicative Competence (Languages), Language Patterns, Language Processing
