A Response to Flynn and Manuel: On the Notion of “Critical Period” in UG/L2 Theory

Birdsong, David

doi:10.1075/lald.3.07bir

In:Point Counterpoint: Universal Grammar in the second language
Edited by Lynn Eubank
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders 3] 1991
► pp. 147–166

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On the Notion of “Critical Period” in UG/L2 Theory

A Response to Flynn and Manuel

David Birdsong

Published online: 9 August 1991

https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.3.07bir

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