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A focus on processing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2003

MANFRED PIENEMANN
MANFRED PIENEMANN
Affiliation:
Linguistics Program, Department of Modern European Languages, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia. E-mail: Manfred.Pienemann@anu.edu.au
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Given that my paper touched upon many aspects of L1 an L2 acquisition, it is not surprising that the commentaries have raised a diverse range of issues. Nevertheless, one should not lose sight of the fact that the paper has a tightly defined focus, namely to delineate the influence of language processing factors and developmental dynamics on developmental trajectories in L1 and L2 acquisition, and this is done in a very explicit manner. As Carroll rightly puts it in her commentary, this “[e]xplicitness allows us to formulate questions which could otherwise not be asked.”

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , April 1998 , pp. 36 - 38
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© 1998 Cambridge University Press

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