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Direct linkThomas, Margaret – Second Language Research, 2009
Lardiere's keynote article adverts to a succession of "units of comparison" that have been employed in the study of cross-linguistic differences, including mid-twentieth-century structural patterns, generative grammar's parameters, and (within contemporary Minimalism) features. This commentary expands on the idea of units of cross-linguistic…
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Contrastive Linguistics, Second Language Learning, Language Research
