Proceedings Of The 2nd Conference On Generative Approaches To Language Acquisition North America Galana

This proceedings contains 46 papers and posters presented at the 2nd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA), which was held August 17-19, 2006, in Montreal. The authors examine first and second language acquisition issues in a large number of languages. The papers focus on the acquisition of syntax, semantics, phonology, and morphology.

This volume contains 19 papers selected from among those presented at the 5th Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition -- North America, which took place from October 11-13, 2012 at the University of Kansas. The papers are grouped into sections on phonology; syntax; syntax-semantics/pragmatics interfaces; tense, aspect, and negation; and quantifiers and quantification.

This volume contains 33 papers and posters presented at the 3rd Conference on Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition North America (GALANA 2008), which was held at the University of Connecticut in Storrs from September 4-6, 2008. The conference included a special focus on language acquisition and cross-linguistic variation, as well as original research in many areas of first and second language acquisition.

This edited volume contains a representative sample of papers presented at the 7th meeting of the Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition – North America (GALANA-7) conference. The book features three streams of research (Variation in Input, First Language Acquisition, and Second Language Acquisition), each of which investigates the nature of language acquisition from the generative perspective. A unique feature of the GALANA-7 conference, and of this volume, is the bringing together of research on generative language acquisition and research on the role that cross-dialectal input variation plays in acquisition. This volume should be of interest to scholars and students of first language acquisition, second language acquisition, and input variation.

This volume contains 27 papers presented at the 10th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2009), which was held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from March 13-15, 2009. The papers are organized into sections on articles, clitics, interfaces, phonology, processing, semantics/pragmatics, and syntax.

This volume contains 18 papers selected from the 8th Generative Approaches to Second Language Acquisition Conference (GASLA 2006), which was hosted by the University of Calgary. It was held at Alberta's Banff Centre, in the heart of the Rocky Mountains, on April 27-30, 2004. The papers address L2 acquisition in speakers of French, English, Chinese, and other languages; the impact of ultrasound technology on L2 acquisition research; and other issues of bilinguality.