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. 281–286
Commentary
Individual variation and constraints on language learning
Published online: 7 September 2012
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.2.3.08phi
https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.2.3.08phi
Article outline
- Individual differences and prerequisites for learning
- The main argument
- What is the Universal Grammar hypothesis?
- What is the Convergence Argument?
- What do the experiments show?
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