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Peer reviewedMacWhinney, B.; Bates, E. – Journal of Child Language, 1993
Thirteen papers in this book illustrate MacWhinney and Bates's Competition Model (CM), with a focus on cross-linguistic processing. Studies in this volume show that (1) the CM is useful in predicting certain gross cross-linguistic differences of comprehension, particularly in relation to actor assignment and (2) children's processing strategies…
Descriptors: Contrastive Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory
