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Download full textWhincop, Chris – Edinburgh Working Papers in Applied Linguistics, 1996
This paper identifies a feature of human brain neural nets that may be described as the principle of ease of processing (PEP), and that, it is argued, is the primary force guiding a learner towards a target grammar. It is suggested that the same principle lies at the heart of Optimality Theory, which characterizes the course of language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Constructivism (Learning), Foreign Countries, Grammar
