This volume includes fourteen papers on the acquisition of Romance languages, eleven of which were presented at the Romance Turn 9, held in Bucharest in September 2018. The studies offer new insights into central issues in the literature, such as syntactic complexity in both typical and impaired language settings, intervention effects, the acquisition of phenomena which involve both syntactic parameters and an external interface, as well as cross-linguistic interference effects. They present novel longitudinal and experimental data on the first language acquisition and second language learning of French, Italian, European and Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian and Spanish. A unique feature of this volume is the focus on the interaction of language specific properties and of factors which are not specific to the faculty of language in the narrow sense, such as data processing, the nature of the input, discourse structure, computational load, sociolinguistic properties, and the development of Theory of Mind.
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Cost-reducing strategies in the production of Brazilian Portuguese relative clauses: Language impairment in the syntactic domain
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The production of variable number agreement in Brazilian Portuguese: A procedural and developmental account
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Assessing children’s syntactic proficiency through a sentence repetition task: A comparison between cochlear implanted children and typically developing children
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On the nature of crosslinguistic influence: Root infinitives revisited
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Can explicit instruction help L2 learners overcome persistent L1 interference?: The case of free inversion in L2 English
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Combining Focus VS and Topic constructions: The acquisition of discourse and conversational dynamics strategies in child Italian
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Gender marking in L1 and L2 French: Syntactic complexity, lexical category and phonological expression
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