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Hawkins, Roger; And Others – Second Language Research, 1993
A detailed study of the developing intuitions of English-speaking adult learners of second-language French was conducted. One finding, that English-speaking learners of French can use nonparametrized properties of Universal Grammar to handle surface syntactic English-French differences, supports an emerging view about the role of parametrized…
Descriptors: English, Foreign Countries, French, Grammar