New Trends in Language Acquisition Within the Generative Perspective

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2. Second-Language

   1. Front Matter

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   2. One Feature—One Head: Features as Functional Heads in Language Acquisition and Attrition

      • Michael T. Putnam

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   3. Future Tense Acquisition by French-Speaking Learners of L2 Spanish: Chronology, Conjecture and Concession

      • Aoife Ahern, José Amenós-Pons, Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes

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   4. Tense and Aspect in Spanish Heritage Speakers Living in Germany

      • Tim Diaubalick, Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Katrin Schmitz

      Pages 49-70

   5. Pronominal Use/Knowledge in Late L1-Attrition and Near-Native L2-Acquisition: The Case of Pro-drop L1 Bulgarian and Non-pro-drop L2 German

      • Dobrinka Genevska-Hanke

      Pages 71-95

3. Language Acquisition Under Specific Conditions

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Bilingualism and Code-Blending Among Deaf ASL-English Bilinguals

      • Marjorie Herbert, Acrisio Pires

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   3. Syntactic Problems in German Individuals with Down Syndrome: Evidence from the Production of Wh-Questions

      • Eva Wimmer, Bernadette Witecy, Martina Penke

      Pages 141-163

   4. Code-Mixing in the Weak Language: A Case Study of the Simultaneous Acquisition of French, Italian and Spanish

      • Abira Sivakumar, Natascha Müller, Laia Arnaus Gil

      Pages 165-193

4. First-Language

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Maximality Trouble? Japanese-Speaking Children’s Interpretation of Comparatives

      • Masuyo Ito, Kenneth Wexler

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   3. The Acquisition of Implicit Control in European Portuguese

      • Celina Agostinho, Anna Gavarró

      Pages 219-238

   4. When Is Recursion Easier for Children?

      • Jill de Villiers, Jessica Kotfila, Tom Roeper

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   5. On the Domain Specificity of Intervention Effects in Children’s Comprehension of Relative Clauses and Coordinate Clauses

      • Letícia Maria Sicuro Corrêa

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   6. The Acquisition of ‘Bridging’ Tested with the Coloring Book Method

      • Jasmijn E. Bosch, Shalom Zuckerman, Manuela Pinto

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   7. Stress or Context for the Computation of Scalar Implicatures

      • Liz Smeets, Luisa Meroni

      Pages 313-331

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This book presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art treatment of the acquisition of Indo- and Non-Indo-European languages in various contexts, such as L1, L2, L3/Ln, bi/multilingual, heritage languages, pathology as well as language impairment, and sign language acquisition. The book explores a broad mix of methodologies and issues in contemporary research. 

The text presents original research from several different perspectives, and provides a basis for dialogue between researchers working on diverse projects with the aim of furthering our understanding of how languages are acquired.  The book proposes and refines new theoretical constructs, e.g. regarding the complexity of linguistic features as a relevant factor forming children’s, adults’ and bilingual individuals’ acquisition of morphological, syntactic, discursive, pragmatic, lexical and phonological structures.  It appeals to students, researchers, and professionals in the field.

• Generative grammar
• Language acquisition
• (Non)-Indo European languages
• L2 learners versus heritage speakers
• Deaf ASL-English bilinguals
• Japanese-speaking children’s interpretation of comparatives.
• Language learning and development

• Department of Spanish, Modern and Classical Philology, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma, Spain

  Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, Cristina Suárez-Gómez

Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes is a Professor of Spanish Linguistics at the University of the Balearic Islands and has headed numerous projects on the acquisition of various phenomena in the Spanish language including, but not limited to, the acquisition of ser/estar, tense and mood, and differential object marking, all funded by the British Academy, Art and Humanities Research Council, German Research Foundation, Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, and more recently by the European Union Research Foundation under Horizon 2020. He has authored and co-authored numerous journal articles published in high-impact journal, as well as book chapters and books with leading international publishers. 
Cristina Suárez-Gómez is a Senior Lecturer of English Linguistics at the University of the Balearic Islands and was the principal investigator of the project “Morphosyntactic variation in New Englishes”. She is part of the research group ViEW (Variation in English Worldwide) and a contributor to the Gibraltar component of the International Corpus of English, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (FFI2014-53930-P). Holding a Ph.D. in English from the University of Santiago de Compostela (2004), her main areas of research are English historical syntax, English historical sociolinguistics, dialectal variation in English from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, and morphosyntactic variation in World Englishes. Her principal publications can be seen at view0.webs.uvigo.es/team/cristinasuarez.

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