Written by a team of leading experts working in different SLA specialisms, this fourth edition
is a clear and concise introduction to the main theories of second language acquisition …

Research on child bilingualism accounts for differences in the course and the outcomes of
monolingual and different types of bilingual language acquisition primarily from two …

Much recent scholarship has sought to identify the linguistic and social factors that favor the
expression or omission of subject pronouns in Spanish. This volume brings together leading …

This article argues that there can only be one chunk-defining device in grammar: a theory
cannot afford to have the same work done twice, once by phases, a second time by prosodic …

Modern linguistic theory considers language a product of nature and nurture: the particular
grammar of any individual is a 'linguistic phenotype'that has grown from a 'linguistic …

The Bantu languages are in some sense remarkably uniform (SVO basic word order, noun
classes, verbal morphology), but this extensive language family also show a wealth of …

1. Background The theory of principles and parameters as first proposed in detail in
Chomsky (1981) and developed in versions of the minimalist programme for linguistic theory …

A key parameter in received classifications of language types is the expression of
pronominal subjects. Here we compare variation patterns in conversational data of English …