First language acquisition of morphology and syntax : perspectives across languages and learners / edited by Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes, María Pilar Larrañaga, John Clibbens.

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First Language Acquisition of Morphology and Syntax; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Introduction; Left-dislocated subjects; The development and interaction of Case and Number in early Russian; Verb movement and subject placement in the acquisition of word order; Three acquisition puzzles and the relation between input and output; The acquisition of universal quantifiers in Spanish; Subject-object asymmetry in children's comprehension of sentences containing logical words.

The papers comprising this volume focus on a broad range of acquisition phenomena (subject dislocation, structural case, word order, determiners, pronouns, quantifiers and logical words) from different languages and language combinations. These include languages with large numbers of speakers (French, German, Spanish) and less frequently spoken ones (Norwegian, Russian, Swiss-German, Hebrew, Basque and Serbo-Croatian) within different language acquisition scenarios and a wide range of populations. Most contributions adopt a common theoretical background within the generative approach with the.

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