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ERIC Number: EJ376393
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1988
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Second-Language Acquisition and Its Relationship to Universal Grammar.
Schachter, Jacquelyn
Applied Linguistics, v9 n3 p219-35 Sep 1988
Explores four major areas of differences between first- and second-language acquisition (completeness, equipotentiality, previous knowledge, and fossilization) and argues that the theory of Universal Grammar plays a much smaller role in explaining the second-language acquisition process than current research claims. (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Equipotentiality (Learning); Fossilization (Languages); Universal Grammar