Browsing FAS Scholarly Articles by Keyword "language acquisition"
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Love Is Hard to Understand: The Relationship Between Transitivity and Caused Events in the Acquisition of Emotion Verbs
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2014)Famously, dog bites man is trivial whereas man bites dog is news. This illustrates not just a fact about the world but about language: to know who did what to whom, we must correctly identify the mapping between semantic ... -
Prolegomena to Heritage Linguistics
(2010)Linguistic theory and experimental studies of language development rest heavily on the notion of the adult, perhaps linguistically stable, native speaker. Native speaker competence and performance are typically the result ... -
Why Not Heritage Speakers?
(John Benjamins Publishing, 2011)