In:Usage-based Perspectives on Language and Language Acquisition: In honour of Heike Behrens
Edited by Karin Madlener-Charpentier, Marjolijn H. Verspoor, Mirjam Weder and Annelies Häcki Buhofer
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research 35] 2026
► pp. vii–viii
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Table of contents
Acknowledgements
Author biographies
Preface: The evolution of usage-based approaches to language development
Authors
Elena Lieven
Introduction
Authors
Karin Madlener-Charpentier
Mirjam Weder
Marjolijn Verspoor
Part I.First language use and development
Chapter 1.The wealth of the stimulus
Authors
Dan I. Slobin
Chapter 2.Scaffolding: A contribution to the Interaction Acquisition Support
System (IASS)
Authors
Marie Klatt
Stefan Pfänder
Chapter 3.What’s in a word? Cognitive-linguistic, corpus-linguistic, neuroscientific, AI,
psycholinguistic, and usage-based perspectives
Authors
Nick Ellis
Chapter 4.Explaining individual differences in children’s vocabulary growth: Insights from the Language 0–5 Project
Authors
Caroline F. Rowland
Gary Jones
Michelle S. Peter
Amy Bidgood
Andrew Jessop
Samantha Durrant
Paula Stinson
Julian M. Pine
Chapter 5.Construction families and grammatical paradigms —
or why the constructicon needs horizontal relations
or why the constructicon needs horizontal relations
Authors
Holger Diessel
Chapter 6.The ditransitive verb-argument construction in German L1 acquisition: A
longitudinal case study
Authors
Rasmus Steinkrauss
Chapter 7.The pragmatic development of multi-sentential discourse
Authors
Danielle Matthews
Part II.Second language use and acquisition
Chapter 8.Second language learning as local and long-term process
in and for social interaction
in and for social interaction
Authors
Søren W. Eskildsen
Chapter 9.Verb-argument constructions in advanced L2 English: The case of sojourners
Authors
Zeynep Köylü
Chapter 10.A longitudinal dynamic usage-based study on peer
interaction at an Indonesian pesantren
interaction at an Indonesian pesantren
Authors
Feisal Aziez
Szilvia Bátyi
Simone Pfenninger
Marjolijn Verspoor
Chapter 11.Usage and context in pediatric speech and language therapy: Helping children with oral developmental language disorder build their
language system(s)
Authors
Katrin Skoruppa
Postface.Usage-based language acquisition research: Where to next?
Authors
Ute Römer-Barron
Index
