Prelim pages

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Part I. (2)L1 versus L2 versus child L2
5. ‘Acquisition’ in grammatical development 19
6. Tense and Aspect in early French development in aL2, 2L1 and cL2 learners 47
7. Subject clitics in child L2 acquisition of French 75
8. Placement of infinitives in successive child language acquisition 105
9. Part II. The acquisition of sentence structure and functional categories
10. The developmental pathway of nominal functional categories in early child Mandarin 125
11. The emergence of CP in child Basque 151
12. Some directions for the systematic investigation of the acquisition of Cypriot Greek 179
13. Strict Interfaces and three kinds of Multiple Grammar 205
14. Part III. Autonomous development vs. crosslinguistic influence in bilingual first language acquisition
15. Delay and acceleration in bilingual first language acquisition 231
16. Intonation targets of yes/no questions by Spanish and German monolingual and bilingual children 263
17. Perception of German vowels by bilingual Portuguese-German returnees 287
18. Part IV. Language acquisition, language contact and diachronic change
19. Acquisition in the context of language change 309
20. On the diachronic reanalysis of null subjects and null objects in Brazilian Portuguese 331
21. On the decrease in subject-verb inversion in French declaratives 355
22. On the relation between acceptability and frequency 383
23. Name index 405
24. Subject index 409