Linguistic Universals, Markedness and Learnability: Comparing Two Different Approaches.

White, Lydia

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Publication Date: 1989

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Linguistic Universals, Markedness and Learnability: Comparing Two Different Approaches.

White, Lydia

Second Language Research, v5 n2 p127-40 Dec 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, Language Typology, Language Universals, Linguistic Theory, Second Language Learning

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