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The availability of universal grammar to adult and child learners - a study of the acquisition of German word order

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Clahsen, Harald, Muysken, Pieter·1986·Interlanguage studies bulletin (Utrecht)
DOI 10.1177/026765838600200201
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Children learning German as their first language grasp its verb-final character from the very beginning. Adults learning German as a second language tend to assume in the beginning that it has a subject-verb-object order, and modify this hypothesis only gradually. We argue that this difference is due to the fact that children have access to the 'move alpha' matrix when learning the language, allowing them to make more abstract hypotheses, while adults can only rely on general learning strategies.

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Authors
Clahsen, H., & Muysken, P.
Venue
Interlanguage studies bulletin (Utrecht)
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
1986-12
Volume
2
Issue
2
Pages
93-119
ISSN
0165-9960 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1177/026765838600200201
OpenAlex
W2006178545
Cited by
535
References
2
FWCI
48.63
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
bronze
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)

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Clahsen, H., & Muysken, P. (1986). The availability of universal grammar to adult and child learners - a study of the acquisition of German word order. Interlanguage studies bulletin (Utrecht). https://doi.org/10.1177/026765838600200201

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