The Process of Language Acquisition

Contents: Stephen Crain: On Continuity - Thomas Roeper/William Snyder/Kazuko Hiramatsu: Language Acquisition in a Minimalist Framework: Root Compounds, Merger, and the Syntax-Morphology Interface - David Le Blanc: 'Parameter Setting' in the Minimalist Program - Theordore Marinis: Acquiring the Possessive Construction in Modern Greek - Spyridoula Varlakosta: Asymmetries in the Acquisition of Pronominal Reference in Normal and SLI Children - Linda Escobar/Anna Gavarró: The Acquisition of Catalan Clitics and its Implications for Complex Verb Structure - Marlies van der Velde/Celia Jakubowicz/Catherine Rigaut: The Acquisition of Determiners and Pronominal Clitics by Three French-Speaking Children - Carla Soares: The Acquisition of D, T and C: Additional Evidence - Celia Jakubowicz: Functional Categories in (Ab)normal Language Acquisition - Vaijayanthi M. Sarma: Case and Agreement: The Issue of Non-Finite Sentences in Acquisition - Petra Gretsch: Are wh-Elements Really Optional in Early Question Acquisition? The Case of wh-Drop Against Focal Ellipsis - Wenda Bergsma: Children's Interpretation of Dutch Sentences with the Focus Particle alleen - Adriana Alvarez: The Acquisition of Spanish Causative Constructions - Cathy Fragman: Pied-piping, Wh-Fronting and the Acquisition of Relative Clauses in French - Janet Grijzenhout/Sandra Joppen: The Lack of Onsets in German Child Phonology - Elizabeth K. Johnson/Peter W. Jusczyk: Finding the Words in Fluent Speech: How Infants Cope With Different Types of Word Segmentation Cues - Sharon Peperkamp/Emmanuel Dupoux: Coping with Phonological Variation in Early Lexical Acquisition - Julia Herschensohn: The Accidental Infinitive - Mamiko Akita: The Effect of "Positive Evidence With a Positive Effect" on Japanese English Learners' Interlanguage Phonology.

The Editor: Ingeborg Lasser is a graduate of the City University of New York (Graduate Center) and teaches language acquisition and language processing at the University of Potsdam, Germany.