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| White, Lydia | 1 |
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Peer reviewedWhite, Lydia – Second Language Research, 1989
Explores the concept of markedness in two different linguistically based approaches to universals in second language acquisition. While typologists define markedness implicationally, current theories of language learnability define markedness in terms of the Subset Principle. (21 references) (Author/CB)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Diacritical Marking, Language Acquisition, Language Research
