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Slobin, Dan I. 1982. Universal and particular in the acquisition of language. In Wanner, Eric and Lila R. Gleitman, eds. Language acquisition: The state of the art. Cambridge University Press. pp. 128–170.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

ease of processing | first language acquisition | word order, L1-acquisition of

Annotation

S. argues that, though all languages should be roughly equal in ease of mastery, there are considerable differences between languages in the relative ease of acquisition of various subsystems. He focuses in particular on word order phenomena.