load and children's language processing

[Peyton Todd]

Dear Colleagues,

While it cannot be denied that both children and adults are limited in their capacity to do too many things at once, I believe this is highly overrated as an explanation what kinds of sentences children are able or not able to produce. Please see the following article for evidence pertinent to this question!

TODD, Peyton. Tagging after red herrings: evidence against the processing capacity explanation in child language. Journal of Child Language. Cambridge, England (JChL), v. 9, n. 1, Feb., 1982.

Peyton Todd
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