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Direct linkMellow, J. Dean – Applied Linguistics, 2006
One of the great puzzles of language acquisition has been described as poverty of the stimulus: how are complex aspects of language acquired when they appear to be rare or even non-occurring in the input that a learner receives and comprehends? This article presents an emergentist solution to one aspect of this puzzle (involving relative clauses)…
Descriptors: Syntax, Phrase Structure, Longitudinal Studies, Case Studies
