This article addresses the debate about whether adult language learners have access to the principles and parameters of universal grammar in constructing the grammar of a foreign or second language ...

Reviewed Works: CHOMSKY'S UNIVERSAL GRAMMAR: AN INTRODUCTION V. J. CookLEARNABELITY AND SECOND LANGUAGES: A BOOK OF READINGS by James Pankhurst, Mike Sharwood Smith, Paul Van Buren Studies in Second ...

But Chomsky’s theory of universal grammar doesn’t deal with how we learn our native languages. It’s focused on the innate capacity that makes all our language learning possible.