Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1. Left-dislocated subjects: A construction typical of young French-speaking children? 13
5. 2. The development and interaction of Case and Number in early Russian 31
6. 3. Verb movement and subject placement in the acquisition of word order: Pragmatics or structural economy? 61
7. 4. Three acquisition puzzles and the relation between input and output 87
8. 5. The acquisition of universal quantifiers in Spanish 119
9. 6. Subject-object asymmetry in children's comprehension of sentences containing logical words 137
10. 7. On the "vulnerability" of the left periphery in French/German balanced bilingual language acquisition 161
11. 8. The subjects of unaccusative verbs in bilingual Basque/Spanish children 183
12. 9. Dominance, mixing and cross-linguistic influence: On their relation in bilingual development 209
13. 10. A cross-linguistic analysis of binding in Down syndrome 235
14. 11. Balanced bilingual children with two weak languages: A French/German case study 269
15. Afterword 295
16. Index of subjects 299