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Unified Competition Model of Language Acquisition: A Critical Look at Its Underlying Transition Theory

Advances in Asian Social Science

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Title Unified Competition Model of Language Acquisition: A Critical Look at Its Underlying Transition Theory
 
Creator Khatib, Mohammad; Allameh Tabataba‘i University, Tehran, Iran
Ahmadi, Hossein; Department of TEFL, Malayer Branch, Islamic Azad University, Malayer, Iran.
 
Subject Competition model; Language comprehension; Production; Transition theory
 
Description Abstract – As a psycholinguistic model of language comprehension and acquisition, the Unified Competition Model was developed to account for both first language and second language comprehension and acquisition. The Unified Competition Model posits that languages have a number of cues which receivers of language use in order to comprehend the input they receive. This model is based on the idea that mental processing involves competition. Moreover, The Competition Model, drawing on functionalist and connectionist views of language learning, denies the existence of a language-specific faculty. Furthermore, in the literature, a distinction is made between property theory and transition theory. The present paper aims to delve into the transition theory underlying the Unified Competition Model as applied to the acquisition of first and second languages.
 
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Date 2015-12-20
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Identifier http://worldsciencepublisher.org/journals/index.php/AASS/article/view/1517
 
Source Advances in Asian Social Science; Vol 6, No 1 (2015); 1021-1024
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Language eng
 
Relation http://worldsciencepublisher.org/journals/index.php/AASS/article/view/1517/1137
http://worldsciencepublisher.org/journals/index.php/AASS/article/view/1517/1138
 
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