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DST vs. UG: Can DST account for purely linguistic phenomena?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2007

TANIA IONIN
TANIA IONIN
Affiliation:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Linguistics, 4080 FLB, 707 S. Mathews Ave., MC-168, Urbana IL 61801, USA E-mail: tionin@uiuc.edu
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The article “A Dynamic Systems Theory approach to second language acquisition” by De Bot, Lowie and Verspoor discusses Dynamic Systems Theory (DST), and in particular the benefits of studying second language acquisition (SLA) within the DST framework. The article explains the main characteristics of DST, and goes on to show how various aspects of SLA can be treated from a DST perspective. In particular, the article proposes that the DST framework allows an investigation of how various social and cognitive aspects of SLA interact.

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Peer Commentaries
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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , March 2007 , pp. 27 - 29
Copyright
Cambridge University Press 2007

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