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Direct linkPerfors, Amy – Journal of Memory and Language, 2012
The Less is More hypothesis suggests that one reason adults and children differ in their ability to learn language is that they also differ in other cognitive capacities. According to one version of this hypothesis, children's relatively poor memory may make them more likely to regularize inconsistent input (Hudson Kam & Newport, 2005, 2009). This…
Descriptors: Memory, Adults, Children, Cognitive Ability
