This paper discusses a common reality in many cases of multilingualism: heritage speakers,
or unbalanced bilinguals, simultaneous or sequential, who shifted early in childhood from …

The question of whether there exists a universal subject preference in relativization has
stimulated research in a wide range of languages and across different domains, yielding an …

While usage-based approaches to language development enjoy considerable support from
computational studies, there have been few attempts to answer a key computational …

Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive
and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the …

This critical volume, provides an in-depth analysis of second language reading's multiple
dimensions. The paperback edition describes the complexity of reading and explains how …

Verbal ('sentential','clausal') complements are one type of subordi nate ('dependent')
clauses. Semantically, a verbal complement is a fullfledged proposition with its own …

The new edition of a comprehensive introduction to a rapidly developing field, combining
developmental data with theory. How do children begin to use language? How does …

This article presents a series of manuscripts that discusses the development of second
language reading. The article discusses language-specific constraints on reading …

This introductory guide to language acquisition research is presented within the framework
of Universal Grammar, a theory of the human faculty for language. The authors focus on two …

This study presents and analyzes the comprehension of relative clauses in child and adult
speakers of Russian, comparing monolingual controls with Russian heritage speakers (HSs) …