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Nativism and Constructivism

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We now enter the heart of the hottest debate in the history of psycholinguistics. This is the question of just what processes are innate, and how they explain language behaviour, and acquisition.

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    David M. W. Powers ThC(Hons), PhD, MACS, MIEEE (Senior Research Fellow, Director)

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Powers, D.M.W., Turk, C.C.R. (1989). Nativism and Constructivism. In: Machine Learning of Natural Language. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1697-4_6

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