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Direct linkMontrul, Silvina – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2009
The fundamental difference hypothesis (FDH), as formulated by Bley-Vroman (1990), claims that SLA tends to be nonconvergent because domain-specific linguistic mechanisms available in early childhood cannot be used for language learning in adulthood: Instead, second language (L2) learners deploy domain-general problem solving skills. I claim that…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Children, Bilingualism, Linguistic Theory
