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The Modularity Matching model: a solution to the problem of performance limitations in production?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2004

ANNA L. THEAKSTON
Affiliation:
University of Manchester

Abstract

In his review of Crain & Thornton's (C&T) (1998) ‘Investigations in Universal Grammar’ (IUG), Drozd raises the question of how models of children's linguistic competence relate to their linguistic performance. He highlights the use of processing limitations (PLs) to explain children's non-adultlike performance in most models of acquisition that adopt a Universal Grammar (UG) framework. Although the Modularity Matching (MM) model claims to avoid the need for performance-based constraints by assuming that children and adults operate with the same processing resources, Drozd argues that the model lacks predictive power.

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Discussion
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2004 Cambridge University Press

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