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Partial transfer, not partial access

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Anne Vainikka
Affiliation:
Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6228. vainikka@linc.cis.upenn.edu
Martha Young-Scholten
Affiliation:
Department of Linguistics and English Language, University of Durham, Durham DH1 3JT, United Kingdom. martha.young-scholten@durham.ac.uk

Abstract

Our results support the idea that adults have access to the principles and parameters of Universal Grammar (UG), contrary to Epstein et al.'s misrepresentation of our work as involving partial access to UG. For both LI and L2 acquisition, functional projections appear to develop in a gradual fashion, but in L2 acquisition there is partial transfer in that the lowest projection (VP) is transferred from the speaker's LI.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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