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Recent work on second language acquisition within the generative framework has pointed out interfaces (syntax-discourse, syntax-semantics, etc.) as a residual domain of vulnerability in L2. Rather than in core syntax, it is at the interface level that the divergence between native and non-native grammars has been shown to be more prominent. In this book the investigation of answering strategies and the focalization of new information subjects, which require access to the syntax-discourse interface, will be pursued. Data is collected through an oral elicitation task on Finnish and Italian, a rather unexplored language pair, in various stages of language development: advanced and intermediate L2 acquisition, L1 under L2 attrition, early bilingualism, child monolingual L1 development.

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Roots of language was originally published in 1981 by Karoma Press (Ann Arbor). It was the first work to systematically develop a theory first suggested by Coelho in the late nineteenth century: that the creation of creole languages somehow reflected universal properties of language. The book also proposed that the same set of properties would be found to emerge in normal first-language acquisition and must have emerged in the original evolution of language. These proposals, some of which were elaborated in an article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1984), were immediately controversial and gave rise to a great deal of subsequent research in creoles, much of it aimed at rebutting the theory. The book also served to legitimize and stimulate research in language evolution, a topic regarded as off-limits by linguists for over a century. The present edition contains a foreword by the author bringing the theory up to date; a fuller exposition of many of its aspects can be found in the author's most recent work, More than nature needs (Harvard University Press, 2014).

Language acquisition. --- Linguistics. --- Language acquisition --- Social aspects.

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Roots of language was originally published in 1981 by Karoma Press (Ann Arbor). It was the first work to systematically develop a theory first suggested by Coelho in the late nineteenth century: that the creation of creole languages somehow reflected universal properties of language. The book also proposed that the same set of properties would be found to emerge in normal first-language acquisition and must have emerged in the original evolution of language. These proposals, some of which were elaborated in an article in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (1984), were immediately controversial and gave rise to a great deal of subsequent research in creoles, much of it aimed at rebutting the theory. The book also served to legitimize and stimulate research in language evolution, a topic regarded as off-limits by linguists for over a century. The present edition contains a foreword by the author bringing the theory up to date; a fuller exposition of many of its aspects can be found in the author's most recent work, More than nature needs (Harvard University Press, 2014).

Language acquisition. --- Linguistics. --- Language acquisition --- Social aspects.

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Depuis quelques années, la compréhension de la manière dont les hommes apprennent à parler s’est considérablement affinée. Certaines recherches ont mis en lumière que le foetus acquiert dès les derniers mois de gestation une reconnaissance de sons propres à sa langue maternelle. Certaines techniques, l’imagerie cérébrale en particulier, ont permis d’observer le cerveau en action lorsque la parole est produite ou reçue par l’enfant. Les comparaisons interlangues ont aussi été particulièrement fructueuses, révélant la nature et le poids de contraintes spécifiques imposées par chaque langue, etc. Depuis la production articulée de sons jusqu’à l’élaboration de discours, cet ouvrage décortique comment le langage vient aux enfants. Il permet de saisir la finesse et la complexité de cet apprentissage qui est une spécificité humaine. Il explique aussi comment mieux appréhender et remédier aux éventuels troubles du langage.

Language acquisition --- Langage --- Acquisition --- BPB1508

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This edited collection contains 34 papers originally presented at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA) conference in 2013, held in Oldenburg, Germany. It represents theoretically guided, high quality work, and provides impressive insights into state-of-the-art research in the fields of first and second language acquisition and developmental impairments. The studies brought together here cover a wide variety of different (mainly European) languages, focusing on the areas of phonology, morpho-syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and their interfaces. Since their first publication,

Language acquisition --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Psycholinguistics