This paper aims to examine that the marked binding of universal grammar operates not only in first language acquisition but also in second language acquisition and prove this argument through a set of experiment. According to Principle and Parameter T...
This paper aims to examine that the marked binding of universal grammar operates not only in first language acquisition but also in second language acquisition and prove this argument through a set of experiment. According to Principle and Parameter Theory (henceforth, PPT), the different values of the Governing Category Parameter (henceforth, GCP) are in a nested subset- superset relationship (the subset principle) and so by the parameter-resetting they must be included in the Universal Grammar (henceforth, UG). I will investigate whether or not L2 learners have access to UG. If they do so, the result will show that second language learning is constrained by UG and second language learners use UG in their language developmental stages.