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Publication details [#35971]
Gass, Susan M. 1989. Language universals and second-language acquisition. Language Learning 39 (4) : 497–534. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
The University of Michigan
Journal WWW
Annotation
This article investigates the assumptions and goals of second language acquisition studies and relates them to those of linguistics. The main focus is on language universals and in particular on universal grammar, typological universals and processing universals.