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ERIC Number: EJ410409
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1990
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Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar.
White, Lydia
Studies in Second Language Acquisition, v12 n2 p121-33 Jun 1990
Discusses the motivation for Universal Grammar (UG), as assumed in the principles and parameters framework of generative grammar (Chomsky, 1981), focusing on the logical problem of first-language acquisition and the potential role of UG in second-language acquisition. Recent experimental research regarding the second-language status of the subjacency principle is also reviewed. (35 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Language Universals, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses
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Language: English
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