{"title":"Wh-word acquisition in Czech: Exploring the growing trees hypothesis","authors":"Radek Šimík, Klára Matiasovitsová, Filip Smolík","doi":"10.1080/10489223.2024.2366804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2024.2366804","url":null,"abstract":"We investigate the acquisition of different functions of wh-words in Czech (Slavic) - a language where wh-words are highly polyfunctional. Our working hypothesis is that the acquisition proceeds in...","PeriodicalId":46920,"journal":{"name":"Language Acquisition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142205333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Why second-language speakers sometimes, but not always, derive scalar inferences like first-language speakers: Effects of task demands","authors":"Ahmed Khorsheed, Bob van Tiel","doi":"10.1080/10489223.2024.2383574","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2024.2383574","url":null,"abstract":"Many studies report that the computation of scalar inferences, such as the inference from ‘some’ to ‘not all’, is cognitively costly. However, a number of studies on scalar inferences in L2 suggest...","PeriodicalId":46920,"journal":{"name":"Language Acquisition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142205332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mandarin non-interrogative wh-words distinguished between children with Developmental Language Disorder and Language-Impaired autistic children","authors":"Rui Huang, Jeannette Schaeffer, Xiaowei He","doi":"10.1080/10489223.2024.2371594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2024.2371594","url":null,"abstract":"Language profile resemblance between autistic11 The current paper uses “identity-first” language throughout, which is often favored by autistic individuals and their parents (Kenny et al. 2016). ch...","PeriodicalId":46920,"journal":{"name":"Language Acquisition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141941019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subject position in Greek and Spanish monolingual and bilingual production: Exploring the influence of verb type and definiteness","authors":"Aretousa Giannakou, Georgios P. Georgiou","doi":"10.1080/10489223.2024.2371610","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2024.2371610","url":null,"abstract":"This research study aims to capture linguistic variation in subject distribution in monolingual and bilingual speakers of an understudied language combination of two null subject languages, followi...","PeriodicalId":46920,"journal":{"name":"Language Acquisition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141940943","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Children’s early negative auxiliaries are true auxiliaries","authors":"André Eliatamby, Virginia Valian","doi":"10.1080/10489223.2024.2356668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2024.2356668","url":null,"abstract":"This study investigates young children’s acquisition of functional categories through their use of negative words and negative auxiliaries in particular. Drawing from CHILDES, we analyze twelve mon...","PeriodicalId":46920,"journal":{"name":"Language Acquisition","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141609105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}