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Transfer in L2 grammars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Rakesh M. Bhatt
Affiliation:
Department of English, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996. rakesh@utk.edu
Barbara Hancin-Bhatt
Affiliation:
Department of English, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208. hancln-bhattb@garnet.cla.sc.edu

Abstract

Although the Full-access hypothesis accounts for a range of empirical generalizations of L2A, it underrepresents the role of language transfer in the construction of the L2 grammar. We suggest the possibility that linguistic principles which constrain the L2 grammar are available both directly from UG and via the L1, a logical hypothesis which Epstein et al. do not consider.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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