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Peer reviewedVainikka, Anne; Young-Scholten, Martha – Second Language Research, 1996
Analyzes data on the acquisition of German by Italian and Spanish speakers. Findings reveal that children learning a first language and adults learning a second language build up syntactic structure in much the same manner, and propose that the weak continuity approach of language acquisition accounts for all instances of syntactic acquisition.…
Descriptors: Adults, Child Language, Developmental Stages, German
