Language Universals and Second Language Acquisition

1. Preface; 2. Introduction (by Rutherford, William E.); 3. Why linguists need laguage acquirers (by Comrie, Bernard); 4. Comments on the paper by Comrie (by Ard, Josh); 5. Second laguage acquisition and the ontology of laguage universals (by Gass, Susan M.); 6. Comments on the paper by Gass and Ard (by Kumpf, Lorraine E.); 7. Reply to Kumpf's Comments (by Gass, Susan M.); 8. Universals, typologies, and interlanguage (by Eckman, Fred); 9. Comments on the paper by Eckman (by Lord, Carol); 10. Universals of discourse structure and second language acquisition (by Givon, T.); 11. Comments on the paper by Givon (by Schumann, John H.); 12. The language bioprogram hypothesis and second language acquisition (by Bickerton, Derek); 13. Comments on the paper by Bickerton (by Ferguson, Charles A.); 14. A universal input condition (by Schachter, Jacquelyn); 15. Uniformity and source-language variation across developmental continua (by Zobl, Helmut); 16. Comments on the paper by Zobl (by Silva-Corvalan, Carmen); 17. In what ways are language universals psychologically real? (by Hakuta, Kenji); 18. Comments on the paper by Hakuta (by Hatch, Evelyn); 19. Reply to Hatch's comments (by Hakuta, Kenji); 20. Repertoire universals, markedness, and second language acquisition (by Ferguson, Charles A.); 21. Index to references; 22. Index to languages