The remarkable way in which young children acquire language has long fascinated linguists and developmental psychologists alike. Language is a skill that we hav

This volume contains a collection of studies that survey recent research in developmental linguistics, illustrating the fruitful interaction between comparative

The computer model. Computation and language acquisition. The acquisition model. Learning phrase structure. Learning transformations. A theory of acquisition. A

This volume includes a selection of papers that address a wide range of acquisition phenomena from different Romance languages and all share a common theoretica