A fundamental goal of linguistic theory is to explain how natural languages are acquired.
This paper describes some recent findings on how learners acquire syntactic knowledge for …

To what extent, if any, does Universal Grammar (UG) constrain second language (L2)
acquisition? This is not only an empirical question, but one which is currently investigable. In …

In an earlier article (Levinson, 1987b), I raised the possibility that a Gricean theory of
implicature might provide a systematic partial reduction of the Binding Conditions; the …

A major purpose of this article is to examine first language (L1) reading theories from second
language (L2) perspectives and, in so doing, to uncover significant research voids related to …

This study investigates second language acquisition of English noun phrases in discourse,
examining the effect of discourse markedness and structural markedness on the …

Anaphora clearly involves syntactic, semantic and pragmatic factors. Although it is generally
acknowledged that pragmatic factors are predominant in discourse anaphora, it is equally …

Can transfer occur in child bilingual syntax when surface overlap does not involve the syntax-
pragmatics interface? Twenty-three Spanish/English bilingual children participated in an …

IN ITS RELATIVELY BRIEF HISTORY, second language acquisition (SLA) research has
based its theoretical ground on principles de-rived from child language acquisition studies …

Flynn has reported that the second‐language processing of subordinate clauses and of
anaphora is affected by the basic word order (head direction) of the learner's native …

The Empirical Nature of Psycholinguistics. The ultimate aim of psycholinguistics is the
empirical assessment of language knowledge. This endeavor is' empirical'in the sense that …