Bayer, J., & Marslen-Wilson, W.(1992). Configurationality in the Light of Language
Comprehension: The Order of Arguments in German. Unpublished manuscript, Konstanz …

This authoritative 2003 textbook provides an overview and analysis of current second
language acquisition research conducted within the generative linguistic framework. Lydia …

Within a Principles and Parameters framework, parameters are hypothesized to constitute
highly restrictive options, or points of variation of a theoretically relevant sort between …

The first book-length treatment of its type, Ultimate Attainment in Second Language
Acquisition is a case study with a solid theoretical grounding that examines the language of …

This article has two main goals. The first is to summarize and comment on the current state
of affairs of generative approaches to SLA (GenSLA), 35 years into its history. This …

Form-meaning connections (FMCs) have long occupied the interest of second language
acquisition (SLA) researchers. From the early research on acquisition orders to current day …

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, several researchers pointed out that the language of
second language (L2) learners is systematic and that learner errors are not random …

In this thesis, I compare three different groups of language learners—nonnative (L2)
children, L2 adults, and first language (L1) children—in their acquisition of the same target …

This paper presents an extension of the Multiple Grammars Theory (Roeper, 1999) to
provide a formal mechanism that can serve as a generative-based alternative to current …

My goals in this paper are (a) to argue that parameter-resetting is the wrong metaphor for
explaining variability in the production of morphological inflection in second language …