Towards a Theory of Language Acquisition

Abstract

"We have seen at the workshop a diversity of measurements and a no less diverse amount of different phenomena. Shared areas were acquisition phenomena in Romance languages and more general: the beginnings for a true theory of language acquisition. I will not attempt to evaluate the various contributions here. All of this must get its time to sink in. Yet, the general point of our endeavors, - the theory of language acquisition -, may be underlined to gain a further outlook"