Title: Universal grammar in child second language acquisition
First published: 1994
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.
Subjects: Comparative and general Grammar, Grammar, Comparative and general, Second language acquisition, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES, Langue seconde, Kind, Fremdsprachenlernen, Kinderen, Linguistics, Universele grammatica, Universalgrammatik, Tweedetaalverwerving, Grammaire comparee et generale, Acquisition, Psycholinguistics, Pro-drop, Morphosyntax
LC classification: P118.2 .L35 1994