Empirical and Theoretical Approaches to Language Acquisition: A Generative Perspective

Merle Weicker · Rabea Lemmer · Andrea Listanti · Angela Grimm

Sep 2024 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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This volume presents original up-to-date research in the field of language acquisition. The contributions reflect experimental work guided by linguistic theory, covering different populations of learners, a wide range of linguistic phenomena, a variety of empirical methods, and a rich set of typologically different languages. The studies investigate first and second language acquisition, as well as acquisition in children with developmental language disorder or hearing impairment. The different chapters address various phenomena in the areas of morpho-syntax, phonology, and semantics. This edited collection of papers is a valuable reference for researchers who are interested in language acquisition research and its multifaceted nature. The book highlights the fruitful connection between empirical research and linguistic theory, making it interesting to both psycholinguists and theoretical linguists. The experimental studies collected in this book contribute to our understanding of how different types of learners acquire and process language and can offer novel insights to theoretical linguistics as well.

About the author

Merle Weicker is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Psycholinguistics and Didactics of German at Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. Her main research includes first and second language acquisition of phenomena at the semantics-syntax interface.

Rabea Lemmer is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Psycholinguistics and Didactics of German at Goethe University Frankfurt. Her numerous publications address (a)typical monolingual and bilingual acquisition of morpho-syntax, as well as the professionalization of childhood educators.

Andrea Listanti is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Romance Languages at Goethe University Frankfurt. His research covers language processing and acquisition, with a focus on word order and information structure.

Angela Grimm is a Professor of German Linguistics and Didactics at Goethe University Frankfurt. She has (co-)authored many journal articles, chapters and books on (a)typical monolingual and bilingual acquisition in the field of phonology, on language assessment, as well as on the acquisition and instruction of written language.

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