3 UG is partly available but it is only one factor in the acquisition of L2.
There are other factors and they may interfere with the UG influence.unmarked adj
see markedness
unreleased adj
see allophone
unrounded vowel n
see vowel
unstructured interview n
see structured interview
unsystematic error n
see error of measurement
uptake^1 n
the illocutionary force (see speech act) a hearer interprets from an utter-
ance. For example in the following exchange:
Child: I’m tired.
Mother: You can stop doing your homework now.
the uptake or interpretation by the mother is as if the child had said “Can I
stop doing my homework now?” But sometimes there may be a difference
between the intended uptake (what the speaker wants the hearer to under-
stand) and the actual uptake (what the hearer actually understands).
see also pragmatics
uptake^2 n
in interactionist SLA, a learner’s response to feedback that acknowledges
that feedback in some way, for example, when a learner repeats a teacher’s
correction or incorporates it into a subsequent utterance.
usage^1 n
the ways people actually speak and write. In this sense, usage is closely
related to performance, and can be studied by the analysis of specimens
of authentic language and by experiments of various kinds. The study of
usage can reveal, for example, that the passive voice (see voice^1 ) is more
than ordinarily frequent in scientific writing, or that the spellings all right
and alright both occur. It is also possible to study reactions to usage, and on
this basis to make recommendations when usage is divided. Usage guides
usage