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Comment
. 2017 Feb;24(1):138-139.
doi: 10.3758/s13423-016-1194-3.

Restrictiveness matters

David Adger  1
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Comment

Restrictiveness matters

David Adger. Psychon Bull Rev. 2017 Feb.

Abstract

The Baysian Iterated Learning approach to language is consistent with generative grammar, but needs to be supplemented with specific cognitive constraints for empirical adequacy.

Keywords: Bayesian statistics; Knowledge.

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