A framework for language acquisition
To explain how children acquire language, we need to develop well specified theories of how the human language-learning mechanisms build linguistic representations.
The authors propose a constructivist framework for future theory-building and suggest that this is a valuable framework for developing unified explanations of acquisition across the board.
They describe four components of constructivism and show how they successfully account for the evidence accumulated in the literature thus far.
They argue that, by embedding these four components in their own theories, researchers from every tradition are more likely to generate successful explanations of language acquisition.
https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(25)00142-1
