Introduction. New perspectives in the study of first and second language acquisition

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction. New perspectives in the study of first and second language acquisition 1
4. Part I. Emergence and dynamics of language acquisition and disorders
5. Chapter 1. A tale of two paradigms 17
6. Chapter 2. Dynamic systems methods in the study of language acquisition 33
7. Chapter 3. Early bootstrapping of syntactic acquisition 53
8. Chapter 4. Language acquisition in developmental disorders 67
9. Part II. First language acquisition
10. Chapter 5. Language development in a cross-linguistic context 91
11. Chapter 6. A typological approach to first language acquisition 109
12. Chapter 7. Linguistic relativity in first language acquisition 125
13. Chapter 8. On the importance of goals in child language 147
14. Chapter 9. Promoting patients in narrative discourse 161
15. Chapter 10. On-line grammaticality judgments 179
16. Chapter 11. The expression of finiteness by L1 and L2 learners of Dutch, French, and German 205
17. Part III. Bilingualism and second language acquisition
18. Chapter 12. Age of onset in successive acquisition of bilingualism 225
19. Chapter 13. The development of person-number verbal morphology in different types of learners 249
20. Chapter 14. Re-thinking the bilingual interactive-activation model from a developmental perspective (BIA-d) 267
21. Chapter 15. Foreign language vocabulary learning 285
22. Chapter 16. Cerebral imaging and individual differences in language learning 299
23. Chapter 17. The cognitive neuroscience of second language acquisition and bilingualism 307
24. Index of languages 323
25. Index of subjects 325