This book provides a pioneering introduction to heritage languages and their speakers,
written by one of the founders of this new field. Using examples from a wide range of …

Young children find (some) object relatives much harder to understand than subject
relatives. The main finding of this article is that not all object relatives are difficult. The …

Much work has demonstrated so-called attraction errors in the production of subject–verb
agreement (eg,'The key to the cabinets are on the table',[Bock, JK, & Miller, CA (1991) …

This paper capitalizes on the difference between person complementarity (eg PCC effects)
and omnivorous number (eg the fact that a single plural marker can be used to cross …

Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the syntax in language production. Syntax is an
interface between meaning and sound. A word such as cat has a particular meaning, but the …

“Linguistic theory is concerned primarily with an ideal speaker-listener, in a completely
homogeneous speech-community, who knows its (the speech community's) language …

Grammatical constraints impose diverse requirements on the relations between words and
phrases in a sentence. Research on the online implementation of grammatical constraints …

Linguistic theory and experimental studies of language development rest heavily on the
notion of the adult, perhaps linguistically stable, native speaker. Native speaker competence …

Agreement lies at the heart of sentence structure in that it usually codifies the formal link
between the subject and the predicate. In a way, although not strictly necessary, agreement …

The paper investigates first and last conjunct agreement in Serbo-Croatian, the latter being a
rather rare phenomenon for head initial languages. The paper gives a uniform account of …