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Three Streams of Generative Language Acquisition Research
Selected papers from the 7th Meeting of Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Editors
This edited volume contains a representative sample of papers presented at the 7th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America (GALANA-7) conference. The book features three streams of research (Variation in Input, First Language Acquisition, and Second Language Acquisition), each of which investigates the nature of language acquisition from the generative perspective. A unique feature of the GALANA-7 conference, and of this volume, is the bringing together of research on generative language acquisition and research on the role that cross-dialectal input variation plays in acquisition. This volume should be of interest to scholars and students of first language acquisition, second language acquisition, and input variation.
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 63] 2019. vi, 358 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 12 April 2019
Published online on 12 April 2019
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Three streams of generative language acquisition research: IntroductionTania Ionin and Matthew Rispoli | pp. 1–4
- Part I. Variation in input
- The comprehension of 3rd person singular -s by NYC English-speaking preschoolersIsabelle Barrière, Sarah Kresh, Katsiaryna Aharodnik, Géraldine Legendre and Thierry Nazzi | pp. 7–33
- Children’s acquisition of sociolinguistic variationKaren Miller | pp. 35–58
- Variability within varieties of English: Profiles of typicality and impairmentJanna B. Oetting | pp. 59–82
- Part II. First language acquisition
- Parsing, pragmatics, and representation: Children’s comprehension of two-clause questionsJill de Villiers, Jessica Kotfila and Madeline Klein | pp. 85–105
- The interpretation of disjunction in VP ellipsis in Mandarin ChineseNa Gao, Rosalind Thornton, Peng Zhou and Stephen Crain | pp. 107–124
- When OR is conjunctive in child MandarinHaiquan Huang, Rosalind Thornton and Stephen Crain | pp. 125–142
- The acquisition of V-V compounds in JapaneseMiwa Isobe and Reiko Okabe | pp. 143–157
- Differentiating universal quantification from completive aspect in child CantoneseMargaret Ka-yan Lei and Thomas Hun-tak Lee | pp. 159–183
- On the learnability of implicit argumentsVictoria Mateu and Nina Hyams | pp. 185–202
- Red train, big train, broken train: Semantic aspects of adjectives in child languageMerle Weicker and Petra Schulz | pp. 203–221
- Part III. Second language acquisition
- The acquisition of Mandarin reflexives by heritage speakers and second language learnersChung-yu Chen | pp. 225–251
- Interpretation of count and mass NPs by L2-learners from generalized classifier L1sSea Hee Choi, Yeqiu Zhu and Tania Ionin | pp. 253–270
- Acquisition of word order in L2 Spanish: The case of the auxiliary haber in conjunction with manner adverbsPatricia Gonzalez Darriba | pp. 271–296
- Argument omission in SignL2 acquisition by deaf learners: Back to the inhibitionElena Koulidobrova | pp. 297–318
- The Bottleneck Hypothesis updatedRoumyana Slabakova | pp. 319–346
- Author index | pp. 347–353
- Subject index | pp. 355–358
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Dahl, Anne, Marta Velnić & Kjersti Faldet Listhaug
2024. Introduction. In Current Perspectives on Generative SLA – Processing, Influence, and Interfaces [Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 70], ► pp. 1 ff.
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