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MacWhinney, Brian – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2004
Truscott and Sharwood Smith (henceforth T&SS) attempt to show how second language acquisition can occur without any learning. In their APT model, change depends only on the tuning of innate principles through the normal course of processing of L2. There are some features of their model that I find attractive. Specifically, their acceptance of the…
Descriptors: Cues, Second Languages, Second Language Learning, Competition

Billigmeier, Andrea H.; Drew, Clifford J. – Psychological Reports, 1971
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Grammar, Learning Processes, Learning Theories