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Valian’s paper articulates an extremely important fact about language acquisition:
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Children are given contradictory input.
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Roeper, T., Weissenborn, J. (1990). How to Make Parameters Work: Comments on Valian. In: Frazier, L., De Villiers, J. (eds) Language Processing and Language Acquisition. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3808-6_6
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