The theoretical significance of Universal Grammar in second language acquisition

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Selective optionality in language development (2005, background): “Hawkins (2001) has recently stressed the importance of understanding and explaining L1-L2 differences in terms of “…changes in the way UG interacts with other components of the mind, or in terms of changes that occur in components of UG.””
Morphosyntactic processing in advanced second language (L2) learners: An event-related potential investigation of the effects of L1–L2 similarity and structural distance (2014, background): “That is, learners might simply monitor the input and rely on a surface analysis of forms that tend to co-occur (Hawkins, 2001).”
An ERP study on L2 syntax processing: When do learners fail? (2014, methodology): “A structure that has frequently been used to test native-like attainment in the L2, is grammatical gender, since it has been shown to pose a major challenge to L2 learners (e.g., Hawkins, 2001; White et al., 2001; Sabourin, 2003; Blom et al., 2008).”