Further, there has been the idea that ULM could contribute to various open questions in the field of first-language acquisition (see, e.g., Brent, Murthy, and Lundberg 1995;Batchelder 1997;Brent 1999;Clark 2001;Goldwater 2007).
the connection is still rather vague and even if ULM has matured, it is not clear what implications, if any, this has for child language acquisition.