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Bley-Vroman, R. 1989: The logical problem of second language learning. In Gass, S. and Schachter, J. , editors, Linguistic perspectives on second language acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Chomsky, N. 1965: Aspects of the theory of syntax. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Chomsky, N. 1981a: Lectures on government and binding. Dordrecht: Foris.

Chomsky, N. 1981b: Principles and parameters in syntactic theory. In Hornstein, N. and Lightfoot, D. , editors, Explanation in linguistics: the logical problem of language acquisition. London: Longman, 32-75.

Chomsky, N. 1986: Knowledge of language: its nature, origin, and use. New York: Praeger.

Chomsky, N. 1987: Kyoto Lectures, unpublished ms.

Clahsen, H. and Muyksen, P. 1986: The availability of Universal Grammar to adult and child learners: a study of the acquisition of German word order. Second Language Research 2: 93-119.

Clahsen, H. and Muyksen, P. 1989: The UG paradox in L2 acquisition. Second Language Research 5: 1-29.

Ellis, R. 1985: Understanding second language acquisition. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Felix, S. 1985: More evidence on competing cognitive systems. Second Language Research 1: 47-72.

Finer, D. in press: Binding parameters in second language acquisition. Paper presented at the Second Language Research Forum, UCLA, Los Angeles, February 1989. To appear in Eubank, L., editor, Point/ counterpoint: Universal Grammar in the second language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Finer, D. and Broselow, E. 1986: Second language acquisition of reflexive-binding. Proceedings of the North Eastern Linguistic Society 16. University of Massachusetts at Amherst: Graduate Linguistics Students Association , 154-68.

Flynn, S. 1987: Contrast and construction in a parameter setting model of L2 acquisition. Language Learning 37: 19-62.

Hyams, N. 1983: The acquisition of parameterized grammars. Doctoral dissertation. CUNY.

Kapur, S. , Lust, B. , Harbert, W. , and Martohardjono, G. to appear: Universal grammar and learnability theory: the case of binding domains and the 'Subset Principle'. In Reuland, E. and Abraham, W. , editors, Knowledge and language: issues in representation and acquisition. Dordrecht: Kluwer .

MacLaughlin, D. 1991: Language acquisition and the Subset Principle. Ms. Boston University.

Pinker, S. 1984: Language learnability and language development. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Safir, K. 1987: Comments on Wexler and Manzini. In Roeper, T. and Williams, E. , editors, Parameter setting. Dordrecht: Reidel, 77-89.

Schachter, J. 1988: Second language acquisition and its relationship to Universal Grammar. Applied Linguistics 9: 219-35.

Schachter, J. 1990: On the issue of completeness in second language acquisition . Second Language Research 6: 93-124.

Schwartz, B.D. 1987: The modular basis of second language acquisition. Doctoral dissertation. University of Southern California.

Schwartz, B.D. 1990: Un-motivating the motivation for the Fundamental Difference Hypothesis. In Burmeister, H. and Rounds, P. , editors, Variability in second language acquisition. Eugene, OR: University of Oregon, 667-84.

Wexler, K. 1982: A principle theory for language acquisition. In Wanner, E. and Gleitman, L. , editors, Language acquisition: the state of the art . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 288-315.

Wexler, K. and Manzini, R. 1987: Parameters and learnability in binding theory. In Roeper, T. and Williams, E. , editors, Parameters Setting. Dordrecht: Reidel, 41-76.