In support of the early presence of functional categories in second language acquisition

Behavioral and Brain Sciences 19 (4):732-733 (1996)
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This commentary focuses on whether the full set of categories is available to beginning L2 learners. After critiquing Epstein et al.'s experimental evidence for the presence of functional categories, I outline the results of an experiment involving English speakers learning Japanese as a second language that does indeed point toward the early presence of fuuctional categories.

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