Let's Make Up Your Mind: "Special Nativist" Perspectives on Language, Modularity of Mind, and Nonnative Language Acquisition

Defends the idea that language is a unique, genetically underwritten "module of the mind" and considers consequences such a stance holds for the psycholinguistic study of nonnative language acquisition. Supports the position that language, as conceived within the tradition of generative gr...

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Published inStudies in second language acquisition Vol. 21; no. 4; p. 635
Main Author Schwartz, Bonnie D
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.12.1999
Subjects
Generative Grammar
Psycholinguistics
Second Language Instruction
Second Language Learning
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Summary:Defends the idea that language is a unique, genetically underwritten "module of the mind" and considers consequences such a stance holds for the psycholinguistic study of nonnative language acquisition. Supports the position that language, as conceived within the tradition of generative grammar, is unlike other types of cognition and its basis is innately given. (Author/VWL)
ISSN:0272-2631
DOI:10.1017/S0272263199004052