Language in Development

Preface
I Theoretical and Methodological Considerations
1 Five Questions about Language Learning
2 Coordinate Compounds in Theory and Practice
3 Hard Words
4 Elicited Imitation in First Language Acquisition Research: Cognitive Grounding and Crosslinguistic Application
II Children
5 The Development of Person and Number Agreement in Child Heritage Speakers of Spanish Learning English as a Second Language
6 The Role of Gestures in First and Second Language Acquisition: A Case Study of a Hebrew-English Bilingual Child
7 Discourse-Morphosyntax Interaction in the Acquisition of Spanish Finite and Nonfinite Verbs
8 A Hybrid Approach to Infant-Directed Speech
9 Discontinuous Dependent Morphemes in German and English Parental Speech: Input Differences between Two Languages
III Adults
10 Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution in Native and Nonnative Speakers of Chinese
11 The Tense Puzzle in Second Language Acquisition
12 Bilingual Processing of the First-Learned Language: Are Heritage Speakers and Late Bilinguals Really that Different?
13 Identifying Early Language Changes in Alzheimer's Disease: Extrapolating Lessons Learned from Methodologies Used in Investigating First Language Acquisition
Contributors
Index