SOME INCORRECT IMPLICATIONS OF THE FULL-ACCESS HYPOTHESIS

If Epstein et al. are right that adult second language learners have f ull access to UG, then all of the following should be true: adults sho uld be able to consciously transform their I-Language; adults should b e able to transform pidgins into creoles; adults should be as likely a s children to restructure their grammars on the basis of ''functional' ' pressure. All the foregoing are false, however, which seriously call s into question the correctness of their hypothesis.