Synopsis
This edited collection contains 34 papers originally presented at the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition (GALA) conference in 2013, held in Oldenburg, Germany. It represents theoretically guided, high quality work, and provides impressive insights into state-of-the-art research in the fields of first and second language acquisition and developmental impairments. The studies brought together here cover a wide variety of different (mainly European) languages, focusing on the areas of phonology, morpho-syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and their interfaces. Since their first publication, the proceedings of GALA have become an invaluable reference for cutting-edge research in First and Second Language Acquisition and its impairments – and this volume continues that tradition.
About the Author
Cornelia Hamann is Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of English and American Studies at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany, a position she has held since 2004. She obtained her PhD at the University of Freiburg and her Habilitation at the University of Tübingen, and became a leading expert in the field of language acquisition and impairment during her work at the University of Geneva. Esther Ruigendijk has been a Professor in the Department of Dutch Studies at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany, since 2005. She received her PhD in 2002 from the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. Her research interests include language acquisition, language impairment, and language processing. Within these areas, she concentrates on syntactic and lexical phenomena.
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