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Second Language Acquisition and Universal Grammar.
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White, Lydia – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 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…
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Research, Language Universals