Acquisition-Significant and Transmission-Significant Universals. Working Papers on Language Universals, No. 5.

Bell, Alan

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ERIC Number: ED102824

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Publication Date: 1971-May

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Acquisition-Significant and Transmission-Significant Universals. Working Papers on Language Universals, No. 5.

Bell, Alan

Distinction is made between nonsignificant (i.e. definitional or accidental) and significant universals. Two approaches to discovering the significance of universals are characterized and evaluated: the process-state approach, which aims at "transmission-significant" universals, and the transformationalist approach, which seeks for "acquisition-significant" universals. (Author)

Descriptors: Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Language Universals, Linguistic Theory, Linguistics, Transformational Generative Grammar

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Authoring Institution: Stanford Univ., CA. Committee on Linguistics.

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