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A Problem for UG in L2 Acquisition.
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Klein, Elaine C. – Issues in Applied Linguistics, 1993
Discusses the relationship between universal grammar and second language (L2) acquisition. Explores the phenomenon by testing children of contrasting first languages to see whether null-prep is a general acquisition phenomenon among L2 learners of English, and whether child learners, in contrast to adults, produce null-prep because of first…
Descriptors: Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Elementary School Students, English (Second Language)