Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Why linguists need laguage acquirers 11
6. Comments on the paper by Comrie 30
7. Second laguage acquisition and the ontology of laguage universals 33
8. Comments on the paper by Gass and Ard 69
9. Reply to Kumpf’s Comments 73
10. Universals, typologies, and interlanguage 79
11. Comments on the paper by Eckman 106
12. Universals of discourse structure and second language acquisition 109
13. Comments on the paper by Givón 137
14. The language bioprogram hypothesis and second language acquisition 141
15. Comments on the paper by Bickerton 162
16. A universal input condition 167
17. Uniformity and source-language variation across developmental continua 185
18. Comments on the paper by Zobl 219
19. In what ways are language universals psychologically real? 223
20. Comments on the paper by Hakuta 239
21. Reply to Hatch’s comments 244
22. Repertoire universals, markedness, and second language acquisition 247
23. Index to references 259
24. Index to languages 263