Increasingly, children grow up hearing two languages from birth. This comprehensive
textbook explains how children learn to understand and speak those languages. It brings …

The new edition of a comprehensive introduction to a rapidly develo** field, combining
developmental data with theory. How do children begin to use language? How does …

In this paper we want to compare the results from monolingual children with object
omissions in bilingual children who have acquired two languages simultaneously. Our …

This paper has as its starting point the assumption that in acquiring two languages from
birth, bilingual children separate their grammars from very early on. This does not, however …

The pervasive use of dislocations (as in Le chocolat, c'est bon) is a key characteristic of
spoken French. This book offers various new and well-motivated insights, based on tests …

This chapter discusses morphosyntactic development in bilingual children under age 6
years. The primary focus is on the relationship between children's two languages in …

Die Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung verdeutlicht, welche Chancen sich für Kinder bieten, die in
einer mehrsprachigen Umgebung aufwachsen, und wie der Weg zu mehr als einer …

Vainikka and Young-Scholten (1994; in press) argued that adult language learners initially
project verb phrases and that subsequent projection of functional categories is input driven …

This thesis provides a comprehensive analysis of dislocations in spoken French. In
dislocated constructions, an element appears in the left-or right-periphery of the sentence …

The objective of this research was to compare child second language (L2) learners and
children with specific language impairment (SLI) on both production and comprehension in …