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| Title: | Language acquisition without an acquisition device |
| Author: | William O'Grady |
| Institution: | University of Hawai'i at Mānoa |
| Linguistic Field: | Applied Linguistics; Language Acquisition |
| Abstract: | Most explanatory work on first and second language learning assumes the primacy of the acquisition phenomenon itself, and a good deal of work has been devoted to the search for an ‘acquisition device’ that is specific to humans, and perhaps even to language. I will consider the possibility that this strategy is misguided and that language acquisition is a secondary effect of processing amelioration: attempts by the processor to facilitate its own functioning by developing routines of particular sorts. |
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This article appears in Language Teaching Vol. 45, Issue 1, which you can read on Cambridge's site . |
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