L1 Acquisition and L2 Learning
The view from Romance
Editors
This volume includes fourteen papers on the acquisition of Romance languages, eleven of which were presented at the Romance Turn 9, held in Bucharest in September 2018. The studies offer new insights into central issues in the literature, such as syntactic complexity in both typical and impaired language settings, intervention effects, the acquisition of phenomena which involve both syntactic parameters and an external interface, as well as cross-linguistic interference effects. They present novel longitudinal and experimental data on the first language acquisition and second language learning of French, Italian, European and Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish. A unique feature of this volume is the focus on the interaction of language specific properties and of factors which are not specific to the faculty of language in the narrow sense, such as data processing, the nature of the input, discourse structure, computational load, sociolinguistic properties, and the development of Theory of Mind.
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 65] 2021. vi, 380 pp.
Publishing status: Available
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Table of Contents
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IntroductionLarisa Avram, Anca Sevcenco and Veronica Tomescu | pp. 1–10
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Part 1. Syntactic complexity and intervention effects in the L1 acquisition of Romance
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Chapter 1. Acquisition of clitic climbing by European Portuguese childrenMaria Lobo and Inês Vitorino | pp. 13–38
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Chapter 2. Strategies in the production of PP relative clauses in Brazilian PortugueseMarina Augusto, Erica Rodrigues and Elaine Grolla | pp. 39–66
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Chapter 3. Cost-reducing strategies in the production of Brazilian Portuguese relative clauses: Language impairment in the syntactic domainLetícia M. Sicuro Corrêa and Marina R. A. Augusto | pp. 67–82
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Chapter 4. Some thoughts on (the acquisition of) controlAna Lúcia Santos | pp. 83–108
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Chapter 5. The production of variable number agreement in Brazilian Portuguese: A procedural and developmental accountAna Paula S. P. Jakubów and Letícia M. Sicuro Corrêa | pp. 109–132
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Chapter 6. Assessing children’s syntactic proficiency through a sentence repetition task: A comparison between cochlear implanted children and typically developing childrenSilvia D’Ortenzio and Francesca Volpato | pp. 133–170
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Part 2. Crosslinguistic influence in 2L1 acquisition and L2 learning
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Chapter 7. L1 effects in the L2 acquisition of long-distance binding in European PortugueseAlexandra Fiéis and Ana Madeira | pp. 173–202
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Chapter 8. On the nature of crosslinguistic influence: Root infinitives revisitedJuana M. Liceras and Raquel Fernández Fuertes | pp. 203–228
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Chapter 9. Can explicit instruction help L2 learners overcome persistent L1 interference? The case of free inversion in L2 EnglishJoana Teixeira | pp. 229–256
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Part 3. Language acquisition at the interface in various learning settings
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Chapter 10. Combining Focus VS and Topic constructions: The acquisition of discourse and conversational dynamics strategies in child ItalianMara Frascarelli and Tania Stortini | pp. 259–288
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Chapter 11. Gender marking in L1 and L2 French: Syntactic complexity, lexical category and phonological expressionMarco Bril | pp. 289–314
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Chapter 12. The acquisition of disjunction under negation and recursive ni in FrenchMaria Teresa Guasti, Elena Pagliarini and Stephanie Durrleman | pp. 315–330
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Chapter 13. Deriving scalar implicatures with quantifiers by Romanian childrenAdina Camelia Bleotu | pp. 331–354
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Chapter 14. The acquisition of mood in child SpanishAoife Ahern and Vicenç Torrens | pp. 355–378
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Index | p. 379
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFDC: Language acquisition
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General