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It has frequently been argued that linguistic theory can provide insight into problems of second language acquisition (Flynn, Mazurkewich. Travis. White, and others in this volume). For example, Travis notes that plausible assumptions about theoretical syntax, viz.. Verb placement taken in conjunction with the elegant experimental studies of Clahsen and Muysken (1983) and Clahsen (this volume) help reveal mechanisms of second language (L2) learning in German. Moreover, it has been claimed that information from the study of grammatical disorders can also potentially support such studies; e.g., word order data from agrammatics, also discussed in Travis. I would like to discuss another example from German that may help to investigate the first question and give several examples of other types of agrammatic disorders that have not to my knowledge been studied within a universal grammar framework, but that may be helpful in studying these problems.
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Jenkins, L. (1988). Second Language Acquisition: A Biolinguistic Perspective. In: Flynn, S., O’Neil, W. (eds) Linguistic Theory in Second Language Acquisition. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2733-9_7
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