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

Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive
and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the …

The new edition of a comprehensive introduction to a rapidly developing field, combining
developmental data with theory. How do children begin to use language? How does …

In this article, two accounts of the variable use of inflection in adult second language (L2)
acquisition are examined. The Missing Surface Inflection Hypothesis (MSIH) proposes that …

This paper argues that the traditional view of experience-dependent properties (learned
properties) of language as developing late and non-experience-dependent properties as …

We begin by reviewing data from Korean, Turkish, Italian and Spanish-speaking adults
acquiring German without formal instruction. Our findings have shown that these learners …

3.1. 1 Linguistics as a Seieoce Methodology in modem linguistics must meet the
fundamental purpose of current linguistic theory: to validly characterize the grammatical …

ABSTRACT I propose an analysis of the inflectional system of clauses that captures both
crosslinguistic variation and differences between adult speakers and young children …

This paper discusses the phenomenon of root infinitives (RIs) in child language, focussing
on a distributional restriction on the verbs that occur in this construction, viz. event-denoting …

How did humans acquire cognitive capacities far more powerful than any hunting-and-
gathering primate needed to survive? Alfred Russel Wallace, co-founder with Darwin of …