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Schwartz, Bonnie D. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1999
Defends the idea that language is a unique, genetically underwritten "module of the mind" and considers consequences such a stance holds for the psycholinguistic study of nonnative language acquisition. Supports the position that language, as conceived within the tradition of generative grammar, is unlike other types of cognition and its basis is…
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Psycholinguistics, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning