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Gass, Susan; Ard, Josh – TESOL Quarterly, 1980
Examines the relationship between language universals and language acquisition, comparing data from studies on first and second language acquisition and universals of relative clause formation. It is concluded that second language acquisition data provide a clearer window for the investigation and verification of language universals than first…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Data Analysis, Language Acquisition, Language Research