Emergentist analyses seek to provide multi-factorial accounts of developmental tendencies across subtypes of constructions. For example, Mellow (2006) accounted for an acquisition order across ...

Contemporary theories, ranging from innateness hypotheses such as Chomsky’s Language Acquisition Device to interactionist perspectives emphasising the role of child‐directed speech and joint ...

The language acquisition period in humans lasts about 13 years. After puberty it becomes increasingly difficult to learn a language. We explain this phenomenon by using an evolutionary framework. We ...

This peer commentary emphasizes the importance of placing frequency in an overarching theoretical framework of language acquisition. Three issues are raised that appear to be both important and timely ...

Children with a migration background often misdiagnosed as having an 'impairment of language acquisition' Date: November 16, 2020 Source: Medical University of Vienna Summary: Around 45% of ...

How children acquire their mother tongue has always fascinated scholars. However, for the most part, these studies have focused on children growing up with only one mother tongue, and mostly, in the ...

In From Discriminating to Discrimination, pp. 1-12. Springer (2022). [3] First Language Acquisition. In Usage-Based Second Language Instruction, pp. 105-124. Palgrave Macmillan (2024).