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Competition model

The Competition Model is a psycholinguistic theory of language acquisition and sentence processing, developed by Elizabeth Bates and Brian MacWhinney (1982). The claim in MacWhinney, Bates, and Kliegl (1984) is that "the forms of natural languages are created, governed, constrained, acquired, and used in the service of communicative functions."…

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The Classic Competition Model

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Competition model

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Triples65
Avg. degree1.97
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Competition model

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related to Sentence Processing · 10
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related to Three Components of Emergentism · 7
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related to Unifying the L1 and L2 Learning Models · 7
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related to External links · 5
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Competition model → psycholinguistic theory of language acquisition and sentence processing

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Competition modelis apsycholinguistic theory of language acquisition and sentence processing0.90text
the UCM involves dealing with age-related changes in the outcome of second languageinstance ofnon-nativist model0.80text
the one that places adjectives before nouns in Englishinstance ofThey then generalize groups of item-based patterns to abstract feature-based patterns0.80text
pronounsinstance ofGrammatical devices0.80text
caseinstance ofGrammatical devices0.80text
voiceinstance ofGrammatical devices0.80text
and attachment can all be seen as ways of expressing shifts in a basically ego-centered perspectiveinstance ofGrammatical devices0.80text
McDonaldinstance ofas illustrated in studies0.80text
MacWhinneyinstance ofas illustrated in studies0.80text
Competition modelhas methodThe Competition Model0.60section
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Competition modelhas methodCompetition0.60section

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