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Clarity of purpose in L1 acquisition research: a response to Ken Drozd's Learnability and linguistic performance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2004

WILLIAM PHILIP
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Abstract

Complementing Bart Geurts' (2000) review of the same book, Ken Drozd's Learnability and linguistic performance points out several serious problems with the L1 acquisition research programme of Crain & Thornton (1998). Drozd's objections are so clearly stated that there is little I can add. Nonetheless, I will attempt to flesh out some of his more general points by examining more closely a specific case, namely the experiments in Crain, Thornton, Boster, Conway, Lillo-Martin & Woodams (1996) which focused on normal preschool children's understanding of simple universally quantified sentences.

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Journal of Child Language , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , May 2004 , pp. 496 - 499
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2004 Cambridge University Press

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