Abstract:Following the development of the minimalist program in the 1990's, Second Language Acquisition (SLA) researchers' interest shifted from a focus on functional categories to a focus on formal features which, thereafter, came to be viewed as the 'center of learnability theory'. Subsequently, Chomsky's distinction of feature selection and feature assembly, divided SLA researchers among those who take L2 impairment to result from a failure in the selection of parametrized features, and those who believe that the pr… Show more
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