Author: William E. Rutherford
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
Keywords: language, second, universals, typological, studies, acquisi, containing, acquisition, contributions, conference
Number of Pages: 264
Published: 1984-08
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0915027100
ISBN-13: 9780915027101

This volume consists of papers presented at the Conference on Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition at the University of Southern California, February 1982. Published with the papers are the remarks of the originally assigned discussants. The collection represents an important cross-fertilization between research in grammatical theory and in second language acquisition. Topics dealt with in a number of the papers include word order, markedness, core grammar, accessability hierarchies and simplified registers. The range of universals discussed embraces phonology, syntax, semantics