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The concern of this and the next chapter is the relevance for SLA research of the current Chomskyan model of linguistics. Though theories of syntax and of acquisition go together in this model, this chapter emphasises its syntactic aspects, namely principles and parameters theory, and their relationship to L2 learning, while the next chapter deals principally with the specific model of language acquisition known as Universal Grammar (UG). Principles and parameters theory, also known as Government/Binding (GB) theory (Chomsky, 1981a; 1986b), has become a mainstay of recent SLA research, partly, as we have seen, because major alternatives such as functionalism (Halliday, 1985a) or Generalised Phrase Structure Grammar (Gazdar et al., 1985) have had little impact as yet.
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© 1993 Vivian Cook
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Cook, V. (1993). Principles and Parameters Syntax. In: Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition. Modern Linguistics Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22853-9_8
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