Principles, parameters, and SLA: A retrospective meta-analytic investigation into adult L2 learners' access to Universal Grammar

Language Learning and Language Teaching

Volumn 13, Issue , 2006, Pages 53-90

  Dinsmore, Thomas H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

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