We suggest here a Growing Trees approach for the description of the acquisition of various
syntactic structures in Hebrew, based on the main results reported in Friedmann and …

This volume is the first handbook dedicated to language attrition, the study of how a
speaker's language may be affected by crosslinguistic interference and non-use. The effects …

Intervention effects have been thoroughly studied in formal syntax in the domain of weak
islands. They also have recently been appealed to in the study of language acquisition, to …

We report the results of a study which tested receptive Italian grammatical competence and
general cognitive abilities in bilingual Italian–Sardinian children and age-matched …

We discuss a robust yet at first sight surprising fact: individuals who have problems
understanding sentences with object A-bar movement cannot use overt Case marking of the …

Conversely to plenty of studies describing how L1 transfer affects L2 systems, where the two
grammars, L1/L2, often only come to interact later in life, less is known of dominant language …

Language processing is not an isolated capacity, but is embedded in other aspects of our
cognition. However, it is still largely unexplored to what extent and how language …

This study investigated how thematic priming via visual and linguistic cues influences the
choice of syntactic voice in healthy French-speaking adults and in French-speaking children …

This paper intends to test different accounts of bilingual reference production against the
production of referring expressions in Italian by German‒Italian bilingual adolescents. In …

Through two elicited production experiments we investigated how preschool Italian-
speaking children access the left periphery of the clause with respect to topics in Clitic Left …