Introduction

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Part 1. Syntactic complexity and intervention effects in the L1 acquisition of Romance
5. Chapter 1. Acquisition of clitic climbing by European Portuguese children 13
6. Chapter 2. Strategies in the production of PP relative clauses in Brazilian Portuguese 39
7. Chapter 3. Cost-reducing strategies in the production of Brazilian Portuguese relative clauses 67
8. Chapter 4. Some thoughts on (the acquisition of) control 83
9. Chapter 5. The production of variable number agreement in Brazilian Portuguese 109
10. Chapter 6. Assessing children’s syntactic proficiency through a sentence repetition task 133
11. Part 2. Crosslinguistic influence in 2L1 acquisition and L2 learning
12. Chapter 7. L1 effects in the L2 acquisition of long-distance binding in European Portuguese 173
13. Chapter 8. On the nature of crosslinguistic influence 203
14. Chapter 9. Can explicit instruction help L2 learners overcome persistent L1 interference? 229
15. Part 3. Language acquisition at the interface in various learning settings
16. Chapter 10. Combining Focus VS and Topic constructions 259
17. Chapter 11. Gender marking in L1 and L2 French 289
18. Chapter 12. The acquisition of disjunction under negation and recursive ni in French 315
19. Chapter 13. Deriving scalar implicatures with quantifiers by Romanian children 331
20. Chapter 14. The acquisition of mood in child Spanish 355
21. Index 379