This article reviews several recent studies suggesting that—contrary to a widespread belief—
adult monolingual native speakers of the same language do not share the same mental …

This article reviews the some of the most widely used methods used for studying children's
language acquisition including (1) spontaneous/naturalistic, diary, parental report data,(2) …

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 paper provides experimental evidence suggesting that there are considerable
differences in native language attainment, and that these are at least partially attributable to …

According to usage-based models, linguistic knowledge is built up from experience using
domain-general cognitive abilities. Since speakers differ in general cognitive abilities and in …

This chapter outlines a constructivist account of the process of language acquisition. It
summarizes the constructivist account of development, and the current state of the empirical …

Sentences containing plural numerical expressions (eg, two boys) can give rise to two
interpretations (collective and distributive), arising from the fact that their representation …

Generic statements express generalizations about categories and present a unique
semantic profile that is distinct from quantified statements. This paper reports two studies …

Nativist theories of language development assume that all native speakers of a particular
language ultimately converge on (more or less) the same grammar, and argue that this is …

Near-native speakers (heritage speakers and adult second language learners alike)
experience difficulty in interpreting and producing linguistic constructions that contain …