New Trends in Language Acquisition Within the Generative Perspective

This book presents a comprehensive, state-of-the-art treatment of the acquisition of Indo- and Non-Indo-European languages in various contexts, such as L1, L2, L3/Ln, bi/multilingual, heritage languages, pathology as well as language impairment, and sign language acquisition. The book explores a broad mix of methodologies and issues in contemporary research.  The text presents original research from several different perspectives, and provides a basis for dialogue between researchers workin