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Straw man: Who thought exposure was the ONLY factor?*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2016

VIRGINIA C. MUELLER GATHERCOLE
VIRGINIA C. MUELLER GATHERCOLE*
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Florida International University
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Address for correspondence: V. C. Mueller Gathercole, Linguistics Program, English Department, Florida International University, Miami, FL33199, vmueller@fiu.edu
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Carroll (Carroll) purports to contrast one view of language development in bilinguals, based on exposure, with another, based on processing. She claims that some researchers view language acquisition in bilinguals as founded solely on exposure and argues that language acquisition involves more than this, including analogy, associative learning, instance-based learning, rule-learning, and statistical learning.

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , January 2017 , pp. 23 - 24
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I wish to thank Erika Hoff and Barbara Pearson for very helpful comments on an earlier draft of this response.

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