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Epistemological issue with keynote article “Different speakers, different grammars: Individual differences in native language attainment” by Ewa Dabrowska
[Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2:3] 2012
► pp. 281–286
Commentary

Individual variation and constraints on language learning

| University of Maryland
Article outline
  • Individual differences and prerequisites for learning
  • The main argument
  • What is the Universal Grammar hypothesis?
  • What is the Convergence Argument?
  • What do the experiments show?
  • References
Published online: 7 September 2012
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.2.3.08phi
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