
Paths of Development in L1 and L2 acquisition
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- Paths of Development in L1 and L2 acquisition
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Table of contents
- List of contributors
- Introduction
- 1. Issues in addressing the developmental problem
- 2. Paths of development in child L1, child L2 and adult L2 acquisition
- 3. The papers in this volume
- 4. Summary and dedication
- References
- The acquisition of voice and transitivity alternations in Greek as native and second language
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Voice distinctions and transitivity alternations in Greek
- 2.1. The syntax of Voice
- 3. Voice morphology and transitivity alternations in Turkish
- 4. The study
- 4.1. Subjects
- 4.2. Description of the tasks
- 4.3. Research questions
- 5. Results: Sentence-picture matching task
- 5.1. 'Inherent' reflexives
- 5.2. Anti-causative verbs with non-active morphology and animate subjects
- 5.3. Anticausative verbs with active morphology and inanimate subject
- 5.4. Summary of results from the SPM task
- 5.5. Results: Elicited production task
- 6. Discussion
- 7. Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- Appendix
- Do Root Infinitives ever have an overt subject in child French?*
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The French data
- 3. Initial considerations: Null subjects and Root Infinitives
- 4. Background and assumptions
- 5. Apparent heavy subjects of Root Infinitives
- 5.1. Prosodic characteristics
- 5.2. Information structure characteristics
- 5.3. Discussion
- 6. Apparent clitic subjects of Root Infinitives
- 7. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- The roots of syntax and how they grow
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Sowing the seeds
- 2.1. The Basic Variety
- 2.2. Does the Basic Variety hold up under scrutiny?
- 2.3. If not the Basic Variety, which seeds are sown?
- 2.4. Minimal Trees, Structure Building and Organic Grammar
- 2.5. Organic Grammar vs. the Basic Variety
- 3. How does your garden grow?
- 3.1. Processability Theory
- 3.2. An Alternative to Processability
- 4. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Neuter gender and interface vulnerability in child L2/2L1 Dutch
- Introduction
- 1. The acquisition of grammatical gender of definite determiners in Dutch
- 1.1. Gender morphology on definite determiners in Dutch
- 1.2. The acquisition of gender morphology on definite articles by (monolingual) Dutch children
- 2. Experimental data from Hulk & Cornips (2005)
- 2.1. Methodology and subjects
- 2.2. Experimental results regarding the grammatical gender on the definite determiners
- Correct use of het
- Overgeneralization of the non-neuter definite determiner de
- Decrease in the use of bare nouns
- Summarising
- 3. Differences between mono- and bilingual children: Cross-linguistic influence or deficient input?
- 3.1. Cross-linguistic influence
- 3.2. The role of the input in the acquisition of neuter gender nouns
- 4. Linguistic analysis
- 4.1. Morphological variability of the definite determiner
- 4.2. The production of relative pronouns in Dutch
- 5. Concluding remarks
- Notes
- References
- The development of PATHS
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Experimental methodology
- 2.1. Original experimental goals
- 2.2. Elicitation materials and procedure
- 2.3. Test subjects and settings
- 3. Results for THROUGH and ACROSS: The splitting of complex trajectories
- 4. Lexical semantic complexity and delays in acquisition
- 4.1. The semantic feature hypothesis revisited
- 4.2. The semantic features hypothesis revived
- 5. Toward a non-linguistic solution: Complexity in the spatial representations of trajectories
- 5.1. Uniform linguistic complexity
- 5.2. Spatial representations and directional predication
- 6. Conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- Appendix
- More evidence on the knowledge of unaccusativity in L2 Japanese
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Theoretical background
- 2.1. The Unaccusative Hypothesis
- 2.2. Deep versus Surface Unaccusativity in Japanese
- 3. Previous studies
- 4. Experimental study
- 4.1. Hypotheses
- 4.2. Subjects
- 4.3. Task and materials
- 4.4. Group results
- 4.5. Individual results
- 5. Discussion and conclusion
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- References
- What transfers?
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A brief historical perspective of L1 transfer
- 3. Language assumptions and L1 transfer
- 4. The modular transfer approach of Montrul
- 5. What transfers
- 6. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Full Transfer Full Access
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Full Transfer Full Access
- 2.1. Understanding transfer
- 2.2. Understanding access
- 2.3. Understanding transition
- 3. FTFA meets MOGUL
- 3.1. MOGUL architecture
- 3.2. Activation and competition
- 3.3. Full transfer, full access, and transition - revisited
- 4. Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Name index
- Subject index
- The series Language Acquisition and Language Disorders
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