Language acquisition without an acquisition device

Language Teaching

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 116-130

  O'Grady, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

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EID: 82155188498     PISSN: 02614448     EISSN: 14753049     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S026144481000056X     Document Type: Article

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41. WILLIAM O'GRADY is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States, where he teaches course on syntax and language acquisition. He is the author of many articles and books, including Syntactic carpentry (Routledge, 2005) and How children learn language (Cambridge University Press, 2005).