The Radical Middle: Nativism without Universal Grammar

The Handbook of Second Language Acquisition

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 43-62

  O'Grady, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Human language; Language acquisition; Linguistics; Nativism; Universal grammar

Indexed keywords

EID: 84955377986     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470756492.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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