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The Acquisition of Finiteness
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 133.00The book provides a theoretical and empirical evaluation of a field that has been the focus of generative theories on language acquisition: the acquisition of finiteness and related properties such as root infinitives, verb movement and null subjects. It contains a critical empirical assessment of the various hypotheses, lists the implications for... more...
Meaning in the Second Language
De Gruyter 2008; US$ 168.00The book examines which linguistic properties are hard and which are easy to acquire when learning a second language. The Bottleneck Hypothesis is proposed, which states that inflectional morphemes and their features present the most formidable challenge to learners, while syntax and phrasal semantics pose less difficulty. The numerous empirical studies... more...
The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 40.00Brings together the world's foremost researchers to provide a one-stop resource for the field of language acquisition and development. more...
Language Acquisition and Language Socialization
Continuum International Publishing 2003; US$ 160.00This is an outstanding collection of papers by top scholars in a range of disciplines who shed stimulating, complementary insights into the social, cognitive and semiotic frameworks that shape both the acquisition of language, and the constitution of social actors through that process. The intentionally loose ecological framing of the volume... more...
Language of Early Childhood, 4
Continuum International Publishing 2004; US$ 170.00The Language of Early Childhood is the fourth volume in the collected works of Professor M.A.K. Halliday. Eighteen papers looking at the development of early childhood language are presented over three sections: infancy and protolanguage; transition from childhood tongue to mother tongue; early language and learning. The sociolinguistic account of... more...
Parameter Setting in Language Acquisition
Continuum International Publishing 2005; US$ 130.00This book provides a broad overview of parameter-setting theory in first and second language acquisition and refines the theory by revisiting and challenging the traditional assumptions that underlie it, based on cross-linguistic language data that cover a range of syntactic and phonological phenomena.From an historical perspective on parameter-setting... more...
Acquiring a Non-Native Phonology
Continuum International Publishing 2006; US$ 150.00This is a study of the phonological development of a family of L2 English learners. It is the first full-length book that focuses on a tightly-knit group of learners' acquisition of phonology over a longitudinal timeframe, and the first book to study both social and linguistic factors across that time period. Jette G. Hansen analyses this data... more...
Implicit and Explicit Knowledge in Second Language Learning, Testing and Teaching
Channel View Publications 2009; US$ 40.00The implicit/explicit distinction is central to our understanding of the nature of L2 acquisition. This book begins with an account of how this distinction applies to L2 learning, knowledge and instruction. It then reports a series of studies describing the development of a battery of tests providing relatively discrete measurements of L2 explicit/... more...
The Acquisition of Sociolinguistic Competence in a Study Abroad Context
Channel View Publications 2009; US$ 44.95Drawing on cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of a range of sociolinguistic variables in L2 French, this volume explores the relationship between 'study abroad' and the acquisition of sociolinguistic variation patterns by the advanced second language learner. more...
Lexical Processing in Second Language Learners
Channel View Publications 2009; US$ 49.95Presents studies of second language vocabulary research. This title address various aspects of L2 lexical processing and explore different models of acquisition, processing and storage. more...









