摘要：What Chomsky and his followers persist is that thought is not influenced by language and is only expressed by it. Zahedi (2008) claims Chomsky's determinist approach to language comprises three distinct problems: Humboldt’s Problem—what constitutes knowledge of language—Plato’s Problem—how such knowledge is acquired—and Descartes’ Problem—how such knowledge is put to use, all of which are the main concern of first language acquisition but not second language learning. The present paper is an attempt to elucidate the concept of minimalism and presents an answer to whether the penetration of minimalism into the realm of SLA is plausible. In fact, assuming language as a specific faculty that imposes the output in first language acquisition is not on a par to claim that second language learners acquire the language in much the same way as their first language.
