Individual Differences in Language Acquisition and Processing

Theories must allow for the existence of IDs, where observed (the 'existence' imperative). Second, our theories must account for observed relationships between language and the amount and nature of input (the 'environmental' imperative). Third, and perhaps most informatively, our theories must account for observed relationships between linguistic subsystems and across cognition more generally (the 'architectural' imperative). This latter point deserves some elaboration. In their early work on IDs in language acquisition, Bates and colleagues [9] drew on the hypothesized distinction between vertical and horizontal faculties to theoretically frame the study of IDs within the correlational method. Vertical…

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  Danmarks Frie Forskningsfond

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  Stanford Bio-X
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  Australian Research Council

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