TY - BOOK ID - 77928604 TI - Minimalist Inquiries into Child and Adult Language Acquisition AU - Cabrelli-Amaro, Jennifer AU - Costa, João AU - Cyrino, Sonia L AU - Dias, Rejane AU - Fruit Bell, Maria AU - Grolla, Elaine AU - Iverson, Michael AU - Judy, Tiffany AU - Kato, Mary A AU - Lobo, Maria AU - Madeira, Ana Maria AU - Montrul, Silvina AU - Pires, Acrisio AU - Quicoli, A Carlos AU - Reche Corrêa, Vilma AU - Rothman, Jason AU - Santos, Ana Lúcia AU - Sicuro Corrêa, Letícia AU - Vasconcellos Lopes, Ruth AU - Xavier, Maria Francisca AU - Lightfoot, David AU - Thomé-Williams, Ana PY - 2009 SN - 128229654X 9786612296543 3110215357 9783110215359 9781282296541 3110215349 9783110215342 9783110215342 PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - Second language acquisition KW - Bilingualism KW - Portuguese language KW - Linguistic change KW - Grammar, Comparative and general KW - Minimalist theory (Linguistics) KW - Generative grammar KW - Comparative grammar KW - Grammar KW - Grammar, Philosophical KW - Grammar, Universal KW - Language and languages KW - Philosophical grammar KW - Linguistics KW - Philology KW - Change, Linguistic KW - Language change KW - Historical linguistics KW - Romance languages KW - Languages in contact KW - Multilingualism KW - Second language learning KW - Language acquisition KW - Acquisition KW - Ability testing KW - Grammar, Comparative KW - Language Teaching. KW - Romance Languages. KW - Second Language Acquisition. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77928604 AB - This volume brings together chapters written by specialists in North America, Europe and Brazil. It includes original research about the acquisition (L1, bilingualism) and acquisition/ learning (L2 or L3) of dialects of Brazilian and European Portuguese. In an effort to maximize volume cohesion, the emphasis has been on contributions that present studies exploring both empirical/experimental and theoretical aspects of the acquisition of syntax, and its interfaces with morphology, with semantics/pragmatics, and with language change. Within the generative paradigm alone there are various volumes on the acquisition of other languages, but there are no volumes currently in print focusing on the acquisition of Portuguese. We believe that it is time for such a volume, considering among other factors that Portuguese is the second most widely spoken Romance language (second only to Spanish), and the seventh most widely spoken language in the world. In addition, the significant changes that have taken place between Brazilian and European Portuguese especially since the 19th century make the inquiry into the acquisition of the different dialects a source for very productive insights about the connections between linguistic theory, language acquisition and language change. Finally, having a collection of high quality articles in one place pays homage to the importance for linguistic research of investigations into the acquisition of the Portuguese language. ER -