Language acquisition and development : proceedings of GALA 2009 / edited by Joao Costa ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Author/Creator:

GALA Conference, Corporate Author.

Conference Name:

GALA Conference (2009 : Lisbon, Portugal)

GALA Conference

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language acquisition--Congresses.

Language acquisition.

Psycholinguistics--Congresses.

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (530 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The present volume contains 43 papers presented at the 2009 issue of the conference GALA - Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition, held in Lisbon. The volume contains a very wide and rich range of topics, reflecting the immense quality of the event: the acquisition of languages from different families is studied; comparisons between acquisition of L1, L2 and atypical language development are made; all areas of language development are explored (phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics,...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; INSTRUCTIVE BILINGUALISM; THE INITIAL PROSODIC TEMPLATE IN BRAZILIAN AND EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE; DEFINITENESS IN POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EXISTENTIALS IN THE L2 ENGLISH OF RUSSIAN SPEAKERS; INTERVENTION AND ATTRACTION; ACLOSER LOOK AT PRONOUN COMPREHENSION; ANIMACY AND EARLY WORD ORDER; ACQUISITION OF ENTAILMENT RELATIONS IN KOREAN CAUSATIVES; THE ROLE OF D IN THE ASCRIPTION OF GENDER TO NOVEL ANIMATE NOUNS IN EARLY LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; CLITIC OMISSION IS NULL OBJECT

EVOLUTION OF SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY AND AVOIDANCE STRATEGIES IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS WITH MILD-TO-MODERATE HEARING LOSSON BUILDING UP A SUFFICIENT REPRESENTATION FOR BELIEF; WHEN THE "SCOPE OF THE GAME" RULES THE SCOPE OF NEGATION; THE EFFECT OF CROSSING DEPENDENCIES ON THE ACQUISITION OF PRONOUN COMPREHENSION; THE COMPREHENSION OF RELATIVE CLAUSES AND WH QUESTIONS IN HEBREW AND PALESTINIAN ARABIC HEARING IMPAIRMENT; AN APPROACH TO MULTIPLE INTERROGATIVES IN CHILD BULGARIAN AND POLISH; FINITENESS, SUBJECT-AUX INVERSION AND THE HEAD MOVEMENT CONSTRAINT IN CHILD ENGLISH

ON THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF (HEBREW) COMPOSITIONAL TELICITYAN AUXILIARY/MAIN VERB DISTINCTION IN THE GRAMMAR OF FAROESE CHILDREN; TELICITY MARKING IN DUTCH CHILD LANGUAGE; THE ROLE OF GENDER AND COUNT FEATURES IN THE ACQUISITION OF HET AS A PRONOUN; THE INTONATIONAL PHRASE CONSTRAINTS CODA DEVELOPMENT IN EP; DO CHILDREN COMPUTE SOME OR MOST SCALAR IMPLICATURES; BIMODAL BILINGUAL CROSS-LANGUAGE INFLUENCE IN UNEXPECTED DOMAINS; ROOT INFINITIVES, INFINITIVAL COMPLEMENTS AND SUBJUNCTIVE MORPHOLOGY; SUMMING UP CONSTRAINT LEARNING; YOUNG CHILDREN'S INTERPRETATIONS OF MODAL VERBS

IS IT DIFFICULT TO MOVE FOR YOUNG CHILDRENL2 ACQUISITION OF THE RUSSIAN ASPECTUAL SUFFIX -VA BY ENGLISH SPEAKERS; OVERPASSIVIZATION ERRORS IN L2 JAPANESE; L2 ACQUISITION OF SEMANTICS AT THE SEMANTICS-SYNTAX-PRAGMATICS INTERFACE; ACQUISITION OF INFLECTED AND UNINFLECTED INFINITIVES IN CHILD L1 EUROPEAN PORTUGUESE; INTRODUCTION TO THE ACQUISITION OF FINITENESS IN CAPEVERDEAN; SOME NOTES ON SEMANTICS AND SLI; ACQUISITION OF VOICE ASSIMILATION IN BRAZILIAN PORTUGUESE; INFLECTIONAL MORPHOLOGY IN CHILD SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; THE GREEK PERFECTIVE PAST TENSE IN DIFFERENT DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS

THE EFFECT OF NUMBER AND CASE ON RELATIVE CLAUSE COMPREHENSION IN SPECIFIC LANGUAGE IMPAIRMENTCOSTS OF SCRAMBLING, REVERSIBILITY AND CASE MARKERS IN CHILDREN'S ONLINE PROCESSING OF JAPANESE; GENDERLESS NULL PRONOUNS IN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION; THE ACQUISITION OF QUANTIFICATIONAL DOMAIN; L1 ACQUISITION OF NEUTER GENDER IN DUTCH; ON THE ACQUISITION OF OVERT SUBJECTS, TOPICS AND WH-QUESTIONS IN SPANISH; DOU-QUANTIFICATION IN CHILD MANDARIN

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ISBN:

1-283-14143-4

1-4438-2450-X

9786613141439

OCLC:

823720957