Title: Point counterpoint : universal grammar in the second language /
Authors: Eubank, Lynn
Publisher: J. Benjamins Pub Co.,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Grammar, Comparative and general; Language acquisition; Second language acquisition
Contents: Introduction : universal grammar in the second language / Lynn Eubank -- Seven trivia of language acquisition / Wolfgang Klein -- Seven not-so-trivial trivia of language acquisition : comments on Wolfgang Klein / Nina Hyams -- The accessibility of universal grammar in second language acquisition / Sascha Felix -- Issues in the accessibility debate : a reply to Felix / Jacquelyn Schachter -- Age-dependent effects in language acquisition : an evaluation of "critical period" hypotheses / Suzanne Flynn and Sharon Manuel -- On the notion of "critical period" in UG/L2 theory : a response to Flynn and Manuel / David Birdsong -- Second language competence versus second language performance : UG or processing strategies? / Lydia White -- Processing, constraints on acquisition, and the parsing of ungrammatical sentences / Robert Bley-Vroman -- Linguistic knowledge in second language acquisition / Peter Jordens.