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Direct linkWhite, Lydia – Language Teaching, 2012
According to generative linguistic theory, certain principles underlying language structure are innately given, accounting for how children are able to acquire their mother tongues (L1s) despite a mismatch between the linguistic input and the complex unconscious mental representation of language that children achieve. This innate structure is…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Universals, Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning
