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Why don't L2 learners end up with uniform and perfect linguistic competence?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Ping Li
Ping Li
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Department of Psychology, University of Richmond, VA 23173. plng@urvax.urich.edu
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Abstract

Children in a given linguistic environment all uniformly acquire their target language, but adult learners of L2 do not. UG accounts for children's uniform linguistic behavior, but it cannot serve a similar role in accounting for adult learners' linguistic behavior. I argue that Epstein etal.'s study does not answer the question of why L2 learners end up with nonuniform and imperfect linguistic competence in learning a second language.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , December 1996, pp. 733 - 734
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