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Peer reviewedPienemann, Manfred; Johnston, Malcolm – Second Language Research, 1996
Replies to Mellow's (1996) criticism of the authors' second language acquisition model. The article argues that this model is based on the psychological concept of exchange of linguistic information and that Mellow's evaluation of various types of transformational analysis is irrelevant. The article also addresses several points of detail in…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Processing, Linguistic Theory, Models
Peer reviewedJordens, Peter – Second Language Research, 1988
Argues that children's OV utterances cannot be related transformationally to VO utterances because children initially acquire OV and VO with different sets of verbs, and also argues that L2 acquisition data can be accounted for within a model of L1 structural transfer, without requiring adult learner access to Universal Grammar. (Author/LMO)
Descriptors: Afrikaans, Dutch, Error Analysis (Language), German
