In:Variation in Language Acquisition: Unity in diversity
Edited by Laura Rosseel and Eline Zenner
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research 34] 2025
► pp. v–vi
Published online: 4 November 2025
https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.34.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.34.toc
Table of contents
Introduction: Variation in language acquisition: Unity in diversity
Laura Rosseel
Eline Zenner
Part I.Sociolinguistic learning trajectories
From preschoolers to adolescentsChapter 1.A holistic view on children’s acquisition of sociolinguistic competence: Perception, production and metalinguistic awareness
Irmtraud Kaiser
Chapter 2.Sketching children’s variation-based attitudes: A pilot study on the French Variable Liaison
Nelly Bonhomme
Agnès Witko
Jennifer Krzonowski
Anna Ghimenton
Chapter 3.Telling tales: Tracking the real time development of gendered narrative style in children
Sophie Holmes-Elliott
Thomas Packer-Stucki
Becky Howard
Chapter 4.Goed, bad and ugly: On the role of English evaluative adjectives as a youth language marker for emerging teenagers in Flanders
Melissa Schuring
Chapter 5.Adolescents’ attitudes towards varieties of German and Dutch in the German-Dutch border region: A developmental perspective
Gunther De Vogelaer
Christian Gewering
Chapter 6.Acquisition of syntactic variation: Production of interrogatives in French preschool children
Laurence Buson
Jean-Pierre Chevrot
Aurélie Nardy
Isabelle Rousset
Part II.From varied input to shared outcomes?
Chapter 7.Grammar policing children: Does gender matter?
Thomas St. Pierre
Katherine S. White
Elizabeth K. Johnson
Chapter 8.Parental feedback on children’s non‑conventional versus non‑standard
language use: A combination of perspectives
Freja Verachtert
Dorien Van De Mieroop
Eline Zenner
Chapter 9.Words on walls: A schoolscape study of Indigenous (Māori) loanwords used in New Zealand mainstream primary schools
Jessie Burnette
Andreea S. Calude
Hēmi Whaanga
Chapter 10.Teachers’ attitudes towards sociolinguistic variation in Dutch L2 education in Flanders: A Q study
Chloé Lybaert
Shauny Seynhaeve
Pauline Verhelst
Chapter 11.Perceived varietal contact and use in the lives of adult migrant L2 learners in Austria: A look at the dialect-standard-continuum
Mason A. Wirtz
Irmtraud Kaiser
Andrea Ender
Chapter 12.In(ter)dependent dialect and standard L2 systems? On the development of receptive varietal proficiency
Andrea Ender
Mason A. Wirtz
Index
