Infants and very young children develop almost miraculously the ability of speech, without apparent effort, without even being taught - as opposed to the teenag

This new volume of work highlights the distinctiveness of child SLA through a collection of different types of empirical research specific to younger learners.

A clear and practical introduction to second language acquisition, written for students encountering the topic for the first time.

As one of the first books in child second language acquisition (SLA), this book focuses on the core area of tense-aspect morphology, reporting on three L1-Itali