If Universal Grammar (UG) can aid adult second language acquisition
an important question arises: are linguistic principles that are
not active in the native language also accessible to second
language learners? This question of adult accessibility to UG is
addressed by investigating whether a specific phonological
principle that does not exist in the subjects' native language is
accessible to adult learners. Artificial languages were constructed
to compare the acquisition of a stress system that follows a
natural phonological principle with one that is almost identical to
the same principle, but differs in one feature, thus making it an
"unnatural" system. If second language learners have access to
innate universal linguistic principles they should be better able
to learn the natural rule over the unnatural one. The positive
results lend support to the idea of adult second language learners
having access to UG. This book should be of interest to educators
and researchers in the fields of artificial language learning,
second language acquisition and phonological stress or those with a
general interest in laboratory phonology.
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