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Language Arts & Disciplines Psycholinguistics

Language in Development

A Crosslinguistic Perspective

edited by Gita Martohardjono & Suzanne Flynn

Publisher
MIT Press
Initial publish date
Aug 2021
Category
Psycholinguistics, General, Syntax
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780262542005
    Publish Date
    Aug 2021
    List Price
    $157.00

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Description

Explorations of language development in different types of learner populations and across various languages.

This volume examines language development in different types of learner populations and across various languages. The contributors analyze experimental studies of child and adult language acquisition, heritage language development, bilingualism, and language disorders. They consider theoretical and methodological issues; language development in children, discussing topics that range from gestures to errors in person and number agreement; and development and attrition of (morpho)syntactic constructions in second language learners, bilinguals, and Alzheimer's patients.

The approach is "crosslinguistic" in three senses of the word: the contributors offer analyses of acquisition phenomena in different languages; they consider "crosslinguistic influence," or the potential effects of multiple languages on one another in the mind of the same speaker; and (in a novel use of the term, proposed by the editors) the chapters bring together theoretical and methodological approaches pertinent to the linguistics of language development in children, adults, and heritage speakers.

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Contributor Notes

Gita Martohardjono is Associate Professor of Linguistics at Queens College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Suzanne Flynn is Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT.