Table of contents
Introduction: Universal Grammar in the Second Language1
Seven Trivia of Language Acquisition49
Seven Not-So-Trivial Trivia of Language Acquistion: Comments on Wolfgang Klein71
The Accessibility of Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition89
Issues in the Accessibility Debate: A Reply to felix105
Age-dependent Effects in Language Acquuisition: An Evaluation of “Critical Period” Hypotheses117
On the Notion of “Critical Period” in UG/L2 Theory: A Response to Flynn and Manuel147
Second Language Competence versus Second Language Performance: UG or Processing Strategies?167
Processing, Contraints on Acquisition, and the Parsing of Ungrammatical Sentences191
Linguistic Knowledge in Second Language Acquisition199
Transfer or Universal Grammar: Reply to Jordens219
Principles of Universal Grammar and Strategies of Language Learning: Some Similarities and Differencies between First and Second Language Acquisition231
Conceptual and Empirical Evidence: A Response to Meisel277
Access to Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition305
Language Acquisition and the “Pro-Drop” Phenomenon: A response to Hilles339
Binding Parameters in Second Language Acquisition351
Do Second Language Learners Have “Rogue” Grammars of Anaphora?375
Morphological Uniformity and Null Subjects in Child Second Language Acquisition389
Evidence, Analogy and Passive Knowledge: Comments on Lakshmanan411
Abbreviations419
Index421
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