Null objects in Polish heritage language acquisition in contact with German

critical period effects in foreign language learning:the influence of maturational state on the acquisition of reading,writing, and grammar in english as a foreign language

since the 1960s the age effects on learning both first and second language have been explored by many linguists and applied linguists (e.g lennerberg, 1967; schachter, 1996; long, 1990) and the existence of critical period for language acquisition was found to be a common ground of all these studies. in spite of some common findings, some issues about the impacts of age on acquiring a second or...

A minimalist approach to null subjects and objects in second language acquisition

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Parameter setting in language acquisition: A study of the acquisition of null objects and the ba construction in Chinese

Language development and acquisition in children

Language acquisition is a natural developmental process and is unique to Homo sapiens in which a child acquiring his or her mother tongue as a first language.  The simplest theory of language development is that children learn language by imitating adult language. A second possibility is that children acquire language through conditioning. Noam Chomsky put forward innateness hypothesis. Piaget ...

Language Acquisition in German and Phrase Structure Change in Yiddish

There is a long tradition stretching back into the 19th century of implicitly assuming a relationship between language change and child language acquisition in the notion of “reanalysis”1. Recently, studies such as Yang (2000) have developed formal models of language acquisition and expanded them to model how new syntactic variants can arise among children and be maintained in adult speech comm...