The theme of this Special Issue is asymmetries in language acquisition, and the
contributions present evidence for either the presence or absence of a production …

Although pragmatic deficits are well documented in autism, little is known about the extent to
which grammatical knowledge in this disorder is deficient, or merely delayed when …

This study develops a single elicitation method to test the acquisition of third-person
pronominal objects in 5-year-olds for 16 languages. This methodology allows us to compare …

The current study investigated the production of third-person subject and object pronouns in
monolingual and bilingual children with High Functioning Autism (HFA) and typical …

Subject–object asymmetries are well documented in the acquisition of relative clauses.
Difficulties in the production and comprehension of object relatives have been explained in …

The chapter reviews work on a central topic in acquisition from the perspective of generative
grammar: the Binding principles that dictate how pronouns and reflexives behave. The core …

In several languages, including English and Dutch, children's acquisition of the
interpretation of object pronouns (eg, him) is delayed compared to that of reflexives (eg …

The aim of the present study was to investigate the acquisition of ditransitive structures
beyond production. We conducted an elicitation task (production) and a picture-sentence …

Background: Some patients after right-hemisphere damage show difficulty in Theory of Mind
(TOM) tasks, namely, in the ability to attribute and reason about mental states of others and …

Previous work has shown that heritage grammars are often simplified compared to their
monolingual counterparts, especially in domains in which the societally-dominant language …