In his article Mellow claims that the 'predictive model' is based on a transformational analysis of word formation. We will show that this is incorrect and that instead, the model is based on the psychological concept of ...

In this paper we reopen the controversy surrounding subject pronoun usage in the English of non-native speakers. Much recent research has attempted to account for non-native pronoun usage through Universal Grammar-based ...

This article is based on a large corpus of data collected as part of the European Science Foundation Project on Second Language Acquisition by Adult Immigrants (Perdue, 1984; 1993). In this study, some empirical observations ...

This paper focuses on a parametric difference between French and English, namely the issue of whether or not the language allows verb movement. The lack of verb-raising in English causes a potential learnability problem ...

This paper proposes a functional, parsing-based approach to the attainability of typological targets in L1 and L2 acquisition.Ideally, there should be a functional synchronization between the order in which principles ...

In L1 acquisition research, developmental correlations between superfi cially unrelated linguistic phenomena are analysed in terms of clustering effects, resulting from the setting of a particular parameter of Universal ...

Internationally recognized experts in second language research were asked to provide anecdotes documenting memorable incidents where something had gone awry in their research. The anecdotes proved to emphasize problems of ...