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Functional Categories Acquisition

Functional Categories Acquisition is a theoretical construct in the field of grammar acquisition that refers to the developmental process through which learners acquire syntactic elements such as tense, agreement, and complementizers that do not carry lexical meaning but are essential for structuring grammatical sentences.

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2017–2026

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127

L2 cognitive states and the Full Transfer/Full Access model

Bonnie D. Schwartz, Rex A. Sprouse · Second language Research · 1996 · 1.7K citations

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Bakta: rapid and standardized annotation of bacterial genomes via alignment-free sequence identification

Oliver Schwengers, Lukas Jelonek, Marius Alfred Dieckmann et al. · Microbial Genomics · 2021 · 1.3K citations · Full text

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Why is grammaticalization irreversible?

Martín Haspelmath · Linguistics · 1999 · 905 citations

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Missing Surface Inflection or Impairment in second language acquisition? Evidence from tense and agreement

Philippe Prévost, Lydia White · Second language Research · 2000 · 861 citations

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The partial availability of Universal Grammar in second language acquisition: the ‘failed functional features hypothesis’

Roger Hawkins · Second language Research · 1997 · 821 citations

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Authors

224

  1. JM
    Juana M. Liceras

    University of Ottawa, Canada

    6 publications · 349 citations

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  2. LW
    Lydia White

    McGill University, Canada

    4 publications · 1.2K citations

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  3. SM
    Silvina Montrul

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States

    4 publications · 828 citations

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  4. JM
    Jürgen M. Meisel

    Universität Hamburg, Germany

    4 publications · 557 citations

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  5. DL
    Donna Lardiere

    Georgetown University, United States

    3 publications · 529 citations

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Institutions

127

  1. University of Ottawa

    Ottawa, Canada

    7 h-index

    9 publications

    477 citations

  2. McGill University

    Montreal, Canada

    6 h-index

    11 publications

    4.6K citations

  3. Universität Hamburg

    Hamburg, Germany

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    557 citations

  4. Northwestern University

    Evanston, United States

    4 h-index

    13 publications

    317 citations

  5. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

    Urbana, United States

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    828 citations

  6. Durham University

    Durham, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    1.8K citations

  7. University of Essex

    Colchester, United Kingdom

    3 h-index

    4 publications

    1.1K citations

  8. Universidad de Valladolid

    Valladolid, Spain

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    128 citations

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Venues

  1. Second language Research

    17 publications · 5K citations

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  2. Language Acquisition

    10 publications · 1.2K citations

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  3. Studies in Second Language Acquisition

    SSLA · 6 publications · 1.5K citations

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  4. Journal of Child Language

    6 publications · 1.3K citations

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  5. First Language

    6 publications · 333 citations

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