Language in development : a crosslinguistic perspective / edited by Gita Martohardjono and Suzanne Flynn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Martohardjono, Gita, 1956- editor.

Flynn, Suzanne, editor.

Series:

The MIT Press

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition.

Similarity (Language learning).

Multilingualism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021]

Summary:

"An edited collection of prominent scholars in the field of language acquisition and development, focusing primarily on syntax and morphosyntax from formalist generative perspective"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Five questions about language learning / Virginia Valian

Coordinate compounds in theory and practice / D. Terence Langendoen

Hard words / Lila Gleitman, Kimberly Cassidy, Rebecca Nappa, Anna Papafragou, John C. Trueswell

Elicited imitation in first language acquisition research : cognitive grounding and cross-linguistic application / Cristina Dye, Claire Foley

The development of person and number agreement in child heritage speakers of Spanish learning English as a second language / Jennifer Austin, Liliana Sánchez, Silvia Pérez-Cortes, and David Giancaspro

The role of gestures in first and second language acquisition : a case study of a Hebrew-English bilingual child / Yarden Kedar

Discourse-morphosyntax interaction in the acquisition of Spanish finite and non-finite verbs / María Blume

A hybrid approach to infant-directed speech / Reiko Mazuka

Discontinuous dependent morphemes in German and English parental speech : input differences between two languages / Lynn Santelmann

Syntactic ambiguity resolution in native and nonnative speakers of Chinese / Yun Yao and Jerome Packard

The tense puzzle in second language acquisition / Gita Martohardjono, Virginia Valian, and Elaine Klein

Bilingual processing of the first-learned language : are heritage speakers and late bilinguals really that different? / Ian Phillips, Gita Martohardjono, Christen N. Madsen II, Richard G. Schwartz

Identifying early language changes in Alzheimer's Disease : extrapolating lessons learned from methodologies used in investigating first language acquisition / Janet Cohen Sherman, Suzanne Flynn.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-36606-1

0-262-36197-3

OCLC:

1255633027