%0 Journal Article
%A Kidd, Evan
%+ Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T Grammars, parsers, and language acquisition : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0010-048E-B
%F EDOC: 213191
%R 10.1017/S0305000904006117
%7 2004-07-07
%D 2004
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X Drozd's critique of Crain & Thornton's (C&T) (1998) book Investigations in Universal Grammar (IUG) raises many issues concerning theory and experimental design within generative approaches to language acquisition. I focus here on one of the strongest theoretical claims of the Modularity Matching Model (MMM): continuity of processing. For reasons different to Drozd, I argue that the assumption is tenuous. Furthermore, I argue that the focus of the MMM and the methodological prescriptions contained in IUG are too narrow to capture language acquisition.
%J Journal of Child Language
%V 31
%N 2
%& 480
%P 480 - 483