The acquisition of focus by adult English learners of Hungarian : evidence of optionality in mature and developing grammars

The process of second language acquisition is usually assumed to be affected by differences between the source language (L 1) and the target language (L2). Within the Minimalist approach (Chomsky 1995) crosslinguistic variation is accounted for in terms of differences in the values of features of fu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Papp, Szilvia
Other Authors: Sorace, Antonella : Heycock, Caroline
Published: University of Edinburgh 1999
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.499546