Top-Down vs. Bottom-Up Transfer: Overgeneralized Causatives in L2 English and L2 Spanish
Mónica Cabrera and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
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Syntax First: Mismatches between Morphology and Syntax in First Language Acquisition Elucidate Linguistic Theory
Cristina Dye, Claire Foley, Maria Blume, and Barbara Lust
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Task pragmatics and the lexicon: A re-examination of the role of language in cognition
Akiko Fuse and Laraine McDonough
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Optionality as ‘demarking?in L2 advanced state
Masahiro Hara
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Why do children say did you went?: the role of do-support
Ryoko Hattori
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The acquisition of the German focus particle auch/too: Comprehension does not always precede production
Tanja Hüttner, Heiner Drenhaus, Ruben Van de Vijver, and Jürgen Weissenborn
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The role of argument structure and object familiality in Japanese children's verb learning
Mutsumi Imai, Etsuko Haryu, and Hiroyuki Okada
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The Interaction of Lexical Aspect and Phonological Salience on Regular Past Tense Affixation in L2 English
Elaine C. Klein, Iglika Stoyneshka, Kent Adams, Yana Pugach, Stephanie Solt, and Tamara Rose
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Addressing the syntax/ semantics/ pragmatics interface: the acquisition of the Japanese additive particle mo
Kazumi Matsuoka
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On the Acquisition of Causatives in Japanese
Keiko Murasugi, Tomoko Hashimoto, and Sachiko Kato
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Against the Aspect First Hypothesis
Olesya Olbishevska
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Learning definite determiners: genericity and definiteness in English and Spanish
Ana T Perez-Leroux, Alan Munn, Cristina Schmitt, and Michelle Deirish
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Reappraising Poverty of Stimulus Argument: A Corpus Analysis Approach
Florencia Reali and Morten Christiansen
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Alternative Grammars in Acquisition: markedness- vs. faithfulness-oriented learning
Anthi Revithiadou and Marina Tzakosta
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The production of SE- and SELF-anaphors in Dutch child language
Esther Ruigendijk, Sergio Baauw, Sergey Avrutin, and Nada Vasic
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Acquisition of copulas ser and estar in Spanish: learning lexico-semantics, syntax and discourse
Cristina Schmitt, Carolina Holtheuer, and Karen Miller
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Influence of Parental Input on Learning Argument Structure Constructions
Nitya Sethuraman
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Aspect Marking and Modality in Child Vietnamese
Jennie Tran and Kamil Ud Deen
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Children's understanding of the universal quantifier WH+mo in Japanese
Kyoko Yamakoshi
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