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WHAT DOES THE IMPACT OF FREQUENCY TELL US ABOUT THE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION DEVICE?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 July 2002

Jan H. Hulstijn
Jan H. Hulstijn
Affiliation:
University of Amsterdam Jan Hulstijn, Department of Second Language Acquisition, Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam, Spuistraat 134, 1012 VB Amsterdam, The Netherlands; e-mail: [email protected].
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This peer commentary emphasizes the importance of placing frequency in an overarching theoretical framework of language acquisition. Three issues are raised that appear to be both important and timely: (a) the question of how innate, or initial, cognition can deal with stimulus frequency; (b) the likelihood that frequency has a differential impact depending on the type of knowledge concerned; and (c) preliminary evidence that frequency affects receptive language knowledge more than productive knowledge, which raises the issue of a possible dissociation between the two knowledge types.

Type
Research Article
Information
Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , June 2002 , pp. 269 - 273
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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