storage vs computation

Dick Hudson dick at LINGUISTICS.UCL.AC.UK
Wed Oct 14 08:42:55 UTC 1998


The debate so far assumes that all children follow the same strategic
balance between storage and computation, but it's at least possible that
different children have different strategies. E.g. in initial literacy, some
thrive on phonics (computation) while others do better on whole-word
learning (storage). I suspect this doesn't resolve the debate - I have the
impression from my amateurish reading that *all* children hit the
overgeneralisation stage (where "goed" replaces "went"), and maybe hit it at
the same age (relative to other things such as vocab size). I'd be
interested to hear from someone who knows about individual variation.

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