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

Tania Ionin | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Matthew Rispoli | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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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

https://doi.org/10.1075/lald.63

Table of Contents

Three streams of generative language acquisition research: Introduction

Tania Ionin and Matthew Rispoli | pp. 1–4

Part I. Variation in input

The comprehension of 3rd person singular -s by NYC English-speaking preschoolers

Isabelle Barrière, Sarah Kresh, Katsiaryna Aharodnik, Géraldine Legendre and Thierry Nazzi | pp. 7–33

Children’s acquisition of sociolinguistic variation

Karen Miller | pp. 35–58

Variability within varieties of English: Profiles of typicality and impairment

Janna B. Oetting | pp. 59–82

Part II. First language acquisition

Parsing, pragmatics, and representation: Children’s comprehension of two-clause questions

Jill de Villiers, Jessica Kotfila and Madeline Klein | pp. 85–105

The interpretation of disjunction in VP ellipsis in Mandarin Chinese

Na Gao, Rosalind Thornton, Peng Zhou and Stephen Crain | pp. 107–124

When OR is conjunctive in child Mandarin

Haiquan Huang, Rosalind Thornton and Stephen Crain | pp. 125–142

The acquisition of V-V compounds in Japanese

Miwa Isobe and Reiko Okabe | pp. 143–157

Differentiating universal quantification from completive aspect in child Cantonese

Margaret Ka-yan Lei and Thomas Hun-tak Lee | pp. 159–183

On the learnability of implicit arguments

Victoria Mateu and Nina Hyams | pp. 185–202

Red train, big train, broken train: Semantic aspects of adjectives in child language

Merle Weicker and Petra Schulz | pp. 203–221

Part III. Second language acquisition

The acquisition of Mandarin reflexives by heritage speakers and second language learners

Chung-yu Chen | pp. 225–251

Interpretation of count and mass NPs by L2-learners from generalized classifier L1s

Sea 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 adverbs

Patricia Gonzalez Darriba | pp. 271–296

Argument omission in SignL2 acquisition by deaf learners: Back to the inhibition

Elena Koulidobrova | pp. 297–318

The Bottleneck Hypothesis updated

Roumyana 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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