… the acquisition of comparatives and related constructions by … of acquisition of the relevant
comparison constructions in … the observed time course of acquisition cannot be accounted for …

… captures such comparisons using specific … comparisons in(1) reflects a relationship between
two individuals (a-‐b) or a relationship between an individual to a standard of comparison …

… parameters of crosslinguistic variation in comparison constructions. At the same time, our
results have shown that the time course of acquisition directly contradicts the view that English …

… acquisition process and thus also the order in which comparison constructions are acquired…
English and German speaking children acquire degree constructions. Russian has not yet …

… Of course our interpretation of our findings rests on the assumption that the constructions
in a particular comparison set are truly matched in terms of input frequency, semantic, and …

… The syntax and semantics of comparison constructions is subject to substantial … This paper
reports a study of the time course of the acquisition of comparison constructions in English …

… acquisition of comparative constructions and proposes a fine-grained AP periphery along with
an analysis of comparatives as constructions … major importance of comparisons in our life, …

… comparison constructions are made use of by adult native speakers of Swedish, and how this
develops in acquisition … the roles of the various elements in the comparison constructions. …

… constructions and their acquisition. It investigates effects upon naturalistic second language
acquisition … linguistic form of English verb-argument constructions (VACs: VL verb locative, …

This study concerns the simultaneous acquisition of conditional constructions in Chinese-English
bilingual preschool children in Singapore. Cross-sectional data are obtained from …