Universal grammar in child second language acquisition
Subtitle: null subjects and morphological uniformity
By: Usha Lakshmanan.
Series: Language acquisition & language disorders ;; v. 10
Publisher: J. Benjamins; Benjamins Publishing Company, John
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Second language acquisition.; Grammar, Comparative and general.
Description: This book examines child second language acquisition within the Principles and Parameters theory of Universal Grammar (UG). Specifically, the book focuses on null-subjects in the developing grammars of children acquiring English as a second language. The book provides evidence from the longitudinal speech data of four child second language (L2) learners in order to test the predictions of a recent theory of null-subjects, namely, the Morphological Uniformity Principle (MUP). Lakshmanan argues that the child L2 acquisition data offer little or no evidence in support of the MUP's predictions reg.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [148]-158) and index.