Comparative Perspectives on Language Acquisition

Introduction-Marzena Watorek, Sandra Benazzo & Maya Hickmann: New Comparative Perspectives in the Study of Language Acquisition - Clive Perdue's Legacy



Part I. Second Language Acquisition: From Initial to Final Stages



1. Wolfgang Klein: From the Learner's Point of View



2. Rebekah Rast: L2 Input and the L2 Initial State: The Writings of Clive Perdue



3. Angelika Becker: Finiteness and the Acquisition of Negation



4. Sara Schimke, Joshe Verhagen & Giusy Turco: The Different Role of Additive and Negative Particles in the Development of Finiteness in Early Adult L2 German and L2 Dutch



5. Giuliano Bernini: Lexical Categories in the Target Language and the Lexical Categorisation of Learners: The Word Class of Adverbs



6. Jili Sun: Is it Necessary for Chinese Learners to Mark Time? Reflexions about the Use of Temporal Adverbs with Respect to Verbal Morphology Relations



7. Pascale Trevisiol: The Development of Reference to Time and Space in L3 French: Evidence from Narratives



8. Alexandra Vraciu: Accounting for Verbal Morphology in Advanced Varieties of English L2: Aspect or Discourse?



9. Inge Bartning: High-level Proficiency in Second Language Use: The Case of French



10. David Singleton: Ultimate Attainment and the CPH: Some Thorny Issues



11. Sandra Benazzo: Learner Varieties and Creating Language Anew: How Acquisitional Studies can Contribute to Language Evolution Research



12. Ivani Fusellier: Multiple Perspectives on the Emergence and Development of Human Language: B. Comrie, C. Perdue and D. Slobin



Part II. L1 and L2 Acquisition: Learner Type Perspective



13. Dan Slobin: Child Language Study and Adult Language Acquisition: Twenty Years Later



14. Natasha Mueller & Nadine Eichler: Mixing of Functional Categories in Bilingual Children and in Second Language Learners.



15. Suzanne Schlyter & Anita Thomas: L1 or L2 Acquisition? Finiteness in Child Second Language Learners (chL2), Compared to Adult L2 Learners (adL2) and Young Bilingual Children (2L1)



16. Rosmary Tracy & Vytautas Lemke: Young L2 and L1 Learners: More Alike than Different



17. Christine Dimroth & Stefanie Haberzettl: The Older the Better, or More is More: Language Acquisition in Childhood



18. Sandra Benazzo, Clive Perdue, Marzena Watorek: Additive Scope Particles and Anaphoric Linkage in Narrative and Descriptive Texts: A Developmental Study in French L1 & L2



19. Patrizia Giuliano: Discourse Cohesion in Narrative Texts: The Role of Additive Particles in Italian L1 and L2



20. Henrette Hendriks & Marzena Watorek: The Role of Conceptual Development in the Acquisition of the Spatial Domain by L1 and L2 Learners of French, English and Polish



21. Ewa Lenart: The Grammaticalisation of Nominals in French L1 and L2: A Comparative Study of Child and Adult Acquisition



Part III. Typological Variation and Language Acquisition



22. Anna Giacalone-Ramat: Typology Meets Second Language Acquisition



23. Rainer Dietrich, Chung Shan Kao & Werner Sommer: Linguistic Relativity...Another Turn to the Screw



24. Annie-Claude Demagny: Path in L2 Acquisition: The Expression of Temporality in Spatially Oriented Narratives



25. Carmen Munoz: A Cross-linguistic Study of Narratives with Special Attention to the Progressive: A Contrast between English, Spanish and Catalan



26. Tatiana Aleksandrova: Reference to Entities in Fictional Narratives of Russian/French Quasi-Bilinguals



27. Cecilia Andorno: The Cohesive Function of Word Order in L1 and L2 Italian: How V-S Structures Mark Local and Global Coherence in the Discourse of Native Speakers and of Learners



28. Christiane Von Stutterheim, Ute Halm & Mary Carroll: Macrostructural Principles and the Development of Narrative Competence in L1 German: The Role of Grammar in 8-14 Year Olds



29. Michele Kail: On-line Sentence Processing in Children and Adults: General and Specific Constraints: A Crosslinguistic Study in Four Languages



Closure-Sir John Lyons: A Personal Tribute