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less-is-more hypothesis of language acquisition: a standalone construct

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Language development

the proposal that children's limited processing capacity helps them extract linguistic components, explaining why early learners reach better morphological mastery than adults.

In language development, less-is-more hypothesis of language acquisition refers to the proposal that children's limited processing capacity helps them extract linguistic components, explaining why early learners reach better morphological mastery than adults. This meaning comes from Newport (1990) in Cognitive Science.[1]

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acquisition4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs capacity5 fields · 8 citationsjingle · one word, four limits development1 fields · 2 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

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Newport, E. L. (1990). Maturational Constraints on Language Learning. Cognitive Science, 14(1), 11-28. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog1401_2

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