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Peer reviewedKanno, Kazue – Language Acquisition, 1996
Examines the role that Universal Grammar (UG) plays in the early stages of the acquisition of Japanese as a second language (L2) by adults. Addresses whether a nonparametrized principle of UG that is instantiated in the first language (L1) is "active enough" in the early stages of L2 learning to apply to phenomena for which there are no…
Descriptors: Japanese, Language Processing, Language Research, Linguistic Theory
Peer reviewedGoodluck, Helen; Stojanovic, Danijela – Language Acquisition, 1996
Discusses that Serbo-Croation is a language with a dual system of relative clause formation and describes elicited production and comprehension experiments conducted with preschool children. Results are discussed in the context of the cross-linguistic typology of relative clauses and previous studies of the acquisition of relative clauses. (27…
Descriptors: Child Language, Contrastive Linguistics, Language Processing, Language Research
