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UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: A HISTORY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2006

Silvina Montrul
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Extract

UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR IN SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION: A HISTORY. Margaret Thomas. London: Routledge, 2004. Pp. xiii + 262. $105.00 cloth.

As the title of this volume indicates, Thomas traces the history of ideas behind the contemporary concepts of Universal Grammar (UG) and SLA as well as their coming together in contemporary approaches to linguistics and language acquisition.

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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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