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Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2008)
edited by Jean Crawford, Koichi Otaki, and Masahiko Takahashi
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ISBN 978-1-57473-436-2 library binding
v+346 pages
publication date: 2009
published by Cascadilla Proceedings Project, Somerville, MA, USA

Printed edition: $320.00




Contents

Jean Crawford, Koichi Otaki, and Masahiko Takahashi
Acknowledgements
v (abstract or complete pdf)

Alyona Belikova, Tanja Kupisch, Öner Özçelik, and Emily Sadlier-Brown
Fillers as Functional Categories: Evidence from German-English Bilingual Acquisition
1-12 (abstract or complete pdf)

Ida Ferrari and Simona Matteini
Sensitive Contexts for D Omission in Italian L1: A Case Study
13-24 (abstract or complete pdf)

Anna Gavarró and Marta Mosella
Testing Syntactic and Pragmatic Accounts of Clitic Omission
25-35 (abstract or complete pdf)

John Grinstead, Juliana De la Mora, Mariana Vega-Mendoza, and Blanca Flores
An Elicited Production Test of the Optional Infinitive Stage in Child Spanish
36-45 (abstract or complete pdf)

Sandile Gxilishe, Mantoa Rose Smouse, Thabisa Xhalisa, and Jill de Villiers
Children's Insensitivity to Information from the Target of Agreement: The Case of Xhosa
46-53 (abstract or complete pdf)

Masahiro Hara
Evidence for L2 Syntactic Gap-Processing in Japanese Scrambling Sentences
54-63 (abstract or complete pdf)

Miren Hodgson
The Interaction between Lexical-Semantics and Morphosyntax: A Study on the Development of Verbal Forms in L1 and L2 Spanish
64-75 (abstract or complete pdf)

Angeliek van Hout, Kaitlyn Harrigan, and Jill de Villiers
Comprehension and Production of Definite and Indefinite Noun Phrases in English Preschoolers
76-87 (abstract or complete pdf)

Miwa Isobe
Acquisition of Head-Internal Relative Clauses Revisited
88-97 (abstract or complete pdf)

Michael Iverson
Knowledge of Noun-Drop across Various Lexical and Functional Categories in Heritage Spanish Bilinguals
98-106 (abstract or complete pdf)

Liane Jeschull and Tom Roeper
Evidentiality vs. Certainty: Do Children Trust Their Minds More Than Their Eyes?
107-115 (abstract or complete pdf)

Fufen Jin, Tor A. Åfarli, and Wim A. van Dommelen
Sensitivity to DP-Internal Agreement Violations in L2 Grammar
116-126 (abstract or complete pdf)

Jacqueline van Kampen
The 'Phased' Learnability of Long Wh-questions
127-138 (abstract or complete pdf)

Yu-Chang Liang
Do L2 Grammars Go Beyond the L1 and L2 Input?
139-147 (abstract or complete pdf)

Liu Haiyun and Ning Chunyan
Phase Impenetrability Condition and the Acquisition of Unaccusatives, Object-Raising Ba-Constructions and Passives in Mandarin-Speaking Children
148-152 (abstract or complete pdf)

Keiko Murasugi and Eriko Watanabe
Case Errors in Child Japanese and the Implication for the Syntactic Theory
153-164 (abstract or complete pdf)

Roksolana Mykhaylyk
Developmental Patterns in Flexible Word Order Acquisition
165-174 (abstract or complete pdf)

Emily Nava and Maria Luisa Zubizarreta
Order of L2 Acquisition of Prosodic Prominence Patterns: Evidence from L1 Spanish/L2 English Speech
175-187 (abstract or complete pdf)

Öner Özçelik
Children's Scope Assignment
188-199 (abstract or complete pdf)

Lisa Pearl
Learning English Metrical Phonology: When Probability Distributions Are Not Enough
200-211 (abstract or complete pdf)

Natalia Rakhlin
Does "Q-Spreading" Come with Presupposition Spreading?
212-222 (abstract or complete pdf)

John Ryan
A Child's Early Use of the Imperative to Express Agentivity in Spanish
223-231 (abstract or complete pdf)

Tetsuya Sano, Hiroyuki Shimada, and Takaomi Kato
Negative Concord vs. Negative Polarity and the Acquisition of Japanese
232-240 (abstract or complete pdf)

Maureen Scheidnes, Laurice Tuller, and Hélène Delage
L1 Transfer versus Computational Complexity in Adult L2 French: Evidence from a Comparison with Deaf L1 French Learners
241-252 (abstract or complete pdf)

Emily Sowalsky, Valentine Hacquard, and Tom Roeper
Is PP Opacity on the Path to False Belief?
253-261 (abstract or complete pdf)

Koji Sugisaki
Nominative-Genitive Conversion and Its Transitivity Restriction in Child Japanese
262-269 (abstract or complete pdf)

Lyn Shan Tieu
Transfer Effects in the Production of Non-Referential Verb Phrases by Heritage Speakers of Chinese
270-281 (abstract or complete pdf)

Lidiya Tornyova and Virginia Valian
The Role of Cross-Linguistic Variation in the Acquisition of Auxiliary Inversion in Wh-questions
282-290 (abstract or complete pdf)

Jacolien van Rij, Petra Hendriks, Jennifer Spenader, and Hedderik van Rijn
Modeling the Selective Effects of Slowed-Down Speech in Pronoun Comprehension
291-302 (abstract or complete pdf)

Anna Verbuk
The Role of the Lexical Component in the Acquisition of Scalar Implicatures
303-312 (abstract or complete pdf)

Ellis Wubs, Petra Hendriks, John Hoeks, and Charlotte Koster
Tell Me a Story! Children's Capacity for Topic Shift
313-324 (abstract or complete pdf)

Mei Yang and Tania Ionin
L2 English Articles and the Computation of Uniqueness
325-335 (abstract or complete pdf)

Peng Zhou and Stephen Crain
Focus in Child Language: Evidence from the Acquisition of Chinese
336-346 (abstract or complete pdf)


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