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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. 324–335
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Explaining individual differences in linguistic proficiency

| Northumbria University
Article outline
  • Introduction
  • Some clarifications
    • 1. Education-related differences are not “the whole story”
    • 2. Explicit instruction is not necessary for learning
    • 3. The existence of individual differences does not entail that the UG hypothesis is false
    • Alternative explanations
    • The competence/performance distinction
  • Acquisition by fiat
  • Broader issues
  • References
Published online: 07 September 2012
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.2.3.16dab
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