Different speakers but same Language Acquisition Device?

Hulstijn, Jan H.

doi:10.1075/lab.2.3.06hul

Commentary published In: 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. 273–276

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Commentary

Different speakers but same Language Acquisition Device?

Jan H. Hulstijn | Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC), University of Amsterdam

Published online: 7 September 2012

https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.2.3.06hul

Article outline

What are the implications for LAD?
Level of education effects
Comparison of L2-performance with L1-performance
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