Can innate linguistic knowledge be eliminated from theories of SLA?

Lingua

Volumn 118, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 613-619

  Hawkins, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emergentism; Input in SLA; Nativism; Subject verb agreement; Want to contraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149102185     PISSN: 00243841     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.lingua.2007.03.004     Document Type: Article

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