This article reviews recent SLA studies which have methodologically assumed a direct
relation between the acquisition of inflectional morphology and the development of …

This book describes Optimality Theory from the top down, explaining and exploring the
central premises of OT and the results that follow from them. Examples are drawn from …

This article argues that inversion of the subject and auxiliary in English matrix questions and
elsewhere is the effect of a violable optimality-theoretic constraint that requires head …

Hidden Generalizations is the first monograph devoted exclusively to the problem of
phonological opacity. Opacity arises when the conditions for or results of an active …

The remarkable way in which young children acquire language has long fascinated linguists
and developmental psychologists alike. Language is a skill that we have essentially …

We present a hypothesis for a specific kind of code-mixing in young bilingual children,
during the development of their two first languages, one of which is considerably weaker …

An exploration of the architecture of the grammar, where conditions apply, and the nature of
the lexical/functional split. This concise but wide-ranging monograph examines where the …

It has long been noted that children's early words are truncated in form, and that those forms
show a certain degree of variability in shape. In this paper I argue that children's early word …

This article investigates verb placement, especially Verb second (V2), in post-puberty
second language (L2) learners of two closely related Germanic V2 languages: Swedish and …

In this groundbreaking monograph, Anna Maria Di Sciullo proposes that asymmetry—the
irreversibility of a pair of elements in an ordered set—is a hard-wired property of …