Three streams of generative language acquisition research

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Three streams of generative language acquisition research 1
4. Part I. Variation in input
5. The comprehension of 3rd person singular -s by NYC English-speaking preschoolers 7
6. Children’s acquisition of sociolinguistic variation 35
7. Variability within varieties of English 59
8. Part II. First language acquisition
9. Parsing, pragmatics, and representation 85
10. The interpretation of disjunction in VP ellipsis in Mandarin Chinese 107
11. When OR is conjunctive in child Mandarin 125
12. The acquisition of V-V compounds in Japanese 143
13. Differentiating universal quantification from completive aspect in child Cantonese 159
14. On the learnability of implicit arguments 185
15. Red train, big train, broken train 203
16. Part III. Second language acquisition
17. The acquisition of Mandarin reflexives by heritage speakers and second language learners 225
18. Interpretation of count and mass NPs by L2-learners from generalized classifier L1s 253
19. Acquisition of word order in L2 Spanish 271
20. Argument omission in SignL2 acquisition by deaf learners 297
21. The Bottleneck Hypothesis updated 319
22. Author index 347
23. Subject index 355