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 / edited by Tania Ionin, Matthew Rispoli.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

Ionin, Tania

Contributor:

Ionin, Tania, editor.

Rispoli, Matthew, editor.

Conference Name:

Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (7th : 2016 : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), author.

Series:

Language acquisition & language disorders ; Volume 63.

Language acquisition & language disorders ; Volume 63

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition--North America--Congresses.

Language acquisition.

Second language acquisition--North America--Congresses.

Second language acquisition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 358 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2019]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Three streams of generative language acquisition research

Part I. Variation in input

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

Children’s acquisition of sociolinguistic variation

Variability within varieties of English

Part II. First language acquisition

Parsing, pragmatics, and representation

The interpretation of disjunction in VP ellipsis in Mandarin Chinese

When OR is conjunctive in child Mandarin

The acquisition of V-V compounds in Japanese

Differentiating universal quantification from completive aspect in child Cantonese

On the learnability of implicit arguments

Red train, big train, broken train

Part III. Second language acquisition

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

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

Acquisition of word order in L2 Spanish

Argument omission in SignL2 acquisition by deaf learners

The Bottleneck Hypothesis updated

Author index

Subject index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027262882

9027262888