In support of the early presence of functional categories in second language acquisition
Kazue Kanno · Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 1996
Abstract This commentary focuses on whether the full set of categories is available to beginning L2 learners. After critiquing Epstein et al.'s experimental evidence for the presence of functional categories, I outline the results of an experiment involving English speakers learning Japanese as a second language that does indeed point toward the early presence of fuuctional categories.