Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Seven Trivia of Language Acquisition 49
5. Seven Not-So-Trivial Trivia of Language Acquistion 71
6. The Accessibility of Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition 89
7. Issues in the Accessibility Debate 105
8. Age-dependent Effects in Language Acquuisition 117
9. On the Notion of “Critical Period” in UG/L2 Theory 147
10. Second Language Competence versus Second Language Performance 167
11. Processing, Contraints on Acquisition, and the Parsing of Ungrammatical Sentences 191
12. Linguistic Knowledge in Second Language Acquisition 199
13. Transfer or Universal Grammar 219
14. Principles of Universal Grammar and Strategies of Language Learning 231
15. Conceptual and Empirical Evidence 277
16. Access to Universal Grammar in Second Language Acquisition 305
17. Language Acquisition and the “Pro-Drop” Phenomenon 339
18. Binding Parameters in Second Language Acquisition 351
19. Do Second Language Learners Have “Rogue” Grammars of Anaphora? 375
20. Morphological Uniformity and Null Subjects in Child Second Language Acquisition 389
21. Evidence, Analogy and Passive Knowledge 411
22. Abbreviations 419
23. Index 421