Historically, first language acquisition research was a painstaking process of observation,
requiring the laborious hand coding of children's linguistic productions, followed by the …

This article investigates how formulaic sequences fi t into a constructionist approach to
grammar, which is a major post-Chomskyan family of approaches to linguistic structure. The …

An in-depth examination of the acquisition of grammatical gender has not previously been
conducted for Irish, an endangered indigenous language now typically acquired …

Addressing a topic that has been marginal to discussions within historical linguistics, this
study looks at how extent and speed of language change can be quantified meaningfully …

Two contrasting views on the pragmatic abilities of blind children are presented. According
to the first, many blind children show autistic features, and as a consequence have formulaic …

Understanding the role of input in bilingual phonological acquisition is revealing for
deciphering the workings of language acquisition processes. Input and usage distributional …

Abstract Usage-Based scholars (eg Lieven et al., 2009) have shown that children's early
grammar is characterisable as knowledge of lexically-specific patterns (kick KICKEE) learnt …

Acquiring language is notoriously complex, yet for the majority of children this feat is
accomplished with remarkable ease. Usage-based accounts of language acquisition …

There is a jocular, rhyming German saying that goes Von der Wiege bis zur Bahre–
Formulare, Formulare! The first half means 'From the cradle to the grave'. Unfortunately,' …

SHANLEY EM ALLEN AND HEIKE BEHRENS research focuses on English speaking
children, studies have also examined the development of morphosyntax in other languages …