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Considering language acquisition only, what is one crucial difference between the notion of transformational grammars and the newer principles and parameters theory?

What is one advantage of adopting the latter view?

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Considering language acquisition only, this solution discusses one crucial difference between the notion of transformational grammars and the newer principles and parameters theory. It also discusses one advantage of adopting the latter view.

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1. Considering language acquisition only, what is one crucial difference between the notion of transformational grammars and the newer principles and parameters theory? What is one advantage of adopting the latter view?

One major difference between the two approaches concerns the kind of changes that are going on in a grammar during language acquisition. In the older notion of the ...

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