Language Acquisition at the Interfaces
Proceedings of GALA 2015
1st Edition
Published on 18. April 2018
342 pages
978-1-5275-0981-8 (ISBN)
Description
This volume is a collection of papers presented at the 12th Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition Conference held at the University of Nantes, France, in 2015. Language acquisition, a field of inquiry that has witnessed continuous growth during the past four decades, is central to building a detailed understanding of the human amazing capacity to develop language. The papers gathered here reflect the current research in the field of first, second and heritage language acquisition, addressing a variety of topics in syntax, semantics, phonology and their interfaces, from a wide range of languages such as Tashlhiyt Berber, English, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, European Portuguese, Heritage Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Heritage Sign Language, and Yudja. This volume will thus serve as a valuable reference guide to all scholars interested in (first/second/bilingual) language acquisition, multilingualism, heritage languages, sign language, language pathology and impairment, and experimental research in linguistics.
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Content
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Comprehension of Wh-Questions in Child Romanian
- Free Relative Clauses and the Over-generalization of Wh-Movement
- Is Agree Also Delayed as well as Movement?
- School-Age Sequential Mandarin-Italian Bilingual Children's Comprehension of Relative Clauses
- Absolute Implications in Children's Understanding of Gradable Expressions
- On the Acquisition of Distributive Numerals in Serbian
- The First Steps in the Acquisition of Syllables and Geminates in Tashlhiyt Berber
- L2-English Definites and Non-Maximality
- Factors Affecting Performance in Child Heritage Portuguese in Germany
- Acquiring the Denotation of Object Denoting Nouns
- Resolving Pronoun Ambiguity in European Portuguese
- Phonological Categories of Voice Onset Time and Phonetic Compromise in L2 Acquisition
- Actionality Speaks Louder than Felicity
- Heritage Signers
- Vowel Epenthesis in Children's Oral and Written Productions of Consonant Clusters
- The Acquisition of Recursive Locative PPs and Relative Clauses in Child English
- The Lack of Agent-Orientation for Zibun and the EPP Parameter in Child Japanese
- The Role of Executive Functions in the Acquisition of Reference
- List of Contributors
