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Peer reviewedLakshmanan, Usha; Selinker, Larry – Second Language Research, 2001
Addresses the issue of how we know what learners know based on evidence from second language (L2) learners' spontaneous speech samples gathered longitudinally. Examines some of the problems involved in the analysis of spontaneous speech, with focus on second language studies within the generative framework. Considers the effects of the comparative…
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Interlanguage, Language Research, Longitudinal Studies
Peer reviewedJordens, Peter – Second Language Research, 1988
Argues that children's OV utterances cannot be related transformationally to VO utterances because children initially acquire OV and VO with different sets of verbs, and also argues that L2 acquisition data can be accounted for within a model of L1 structural transfer, without requiring adult learner access to Universal Grammar. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Afrikaans, Dutch, Error Analysis (Language), German
