| Description |
162 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 10 |
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Language acquisition & language disorders ; v. 10
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| Contents |
UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR IN CHILD SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Syntactic Theory and Child Second Language Acquisition; 2 Theoretical Framework; 3 Null Subjects in Developing Grammars; 4 Morphological Uniformity and Null Subjects in Child L2 Grammars; 5 Discussion and Conclusions; References; Index |
| Summary |
This book examines child second language acquisition within the Principles and Parameters theory of Universal Grammar (UG). Specifically, the book focuses on null-subjects in the developing grammars of children acquiring English as a second language. The book provides evidence from the longitudinal speech data of four child second language (L2) learners in order to test the predictions of a recent theory of null-subjects, namely, the Morphological Uniformity Principle (MUP). Lakshmanan argues that the child L2 acquisition data offer little or no evidence in support of the MUP's predictions reg |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [148]-158) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Grammar, Comparative and general.
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Second language acquisition.
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| LC no. |
94026067 |
| ISBN |
1556192479 |
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9027224757 (Eur.) |
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9027224862 (paperback) |
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