Syntactic representations and the L2 acquisition device

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):737-738 (1996)
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Epstein et al.'s theory of SLA is heavily dependent on assumptions about both the nature of the acquisition device and the grammar that it produces. This commentary briefly explores the consequences of an alternative set of assumptions, focusing on the possibility that the acquisition device does not include UG and that syntactic representations do not contain functional projections.

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