Commentary published in:
Epistemological issue with keynote article “A Formalist Perspective on Language Acquisition” by Charles Yang
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:6] 2018
► pp. 764–769

Towards eliminating arbitrary stipulations related to parameters

Linguistic innateness and the variational model

| University of Reading | UiT the Arctic University of Norway | Facultad de Lenguas y Educación, Universidad Nebrija. Madrid, Spain
| Massachusetts Institute of Techonology | University of Arizona
Published online: 26 November 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.18075.rot
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