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Peer reviewedGasser, Michael – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1990
Examines the implications of connectionist models of cognition for second-language theory, in which all knowledge is embodied in a network of simple processing units joined by connections that are strengthened or weakened in response to regularities in input patterns. A connectionist framework is proposed within which hypotheses about…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Processing, Language Universals
Peer reviewedWhite, Lydia – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1987
Discusses various definitions of markedness in terms of second language acquisition and describes a study testing one such definition which found that second language learners did not accept preposition stranding in the second language but did accept double object construction and suggested that transfer took place only with one of two marked…
Descriptors: English, French, Grammar, Language Patterns
