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

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Published online: 9 August 1991

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Table of contents

Introduction: Universal Grammar in the Second Language1

Seven Trivia of Language Acquisition49

Seven Not-So-Trivial Trivia of Language Acquistion: Comments on Wolfgang Klein71

The Accessibility of Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition89

Issues in the Accessibility Debate: A Reply to felix105

Jacquelyn Schachter

Age-dependent Effects in Language Acquuisition: An Evaluation of “Critical Period” Hypotheses117

On the Notion of “Critical Period” in UG/L2 Theory: A Response to Flynn and Manuel147

Second Language Competence versus Second Language Performance: UG or Processing Strategies?167

Processing, Contraints on Acquisition, and the Parsing of Ungrammatical Sentences191

Robert Bley-Vroman

Linguistic Knowledge in Second Language Acquisition199

Transfer or Universal Grammar: Reply to Jordens219

Principles of Universal Grammar and Strategies of Language Learning: Some Similarities and Differencies between First and Second Language Acquisition231

Jürgen M. Meisel

Conceptual and Empirical Evidence: A Response to Meisel277

Bonnie D. Schwartz

Access to Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition305

Language Acquisition and the “Pro-Drop” Phenomenon: A response to Hilles339

William O’Grady

Binding Parameters in Second Language Acquisition351

Daniel L. Finer

Do Second Language Learners Have “Rogue” Grammars of Anaphora?375

Margaret Thomas

Morphological Uniformity and Null Subjects in Child Second Language Acquisition389

Usha Lakshmanan

Evidence, Analogy and Passive Knowledge: Comments on Lakshmanan411

Abbreviations419

Index421