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The volume introduces a collection of thought-provoking studies that cover major topics in monolingual, bilingual and heritage language acquisition as well as L2 and L3 learning. It offers fresh insights into major themes: areas of vulnerability in child heritage Romanian spoken in Italy and in the Netherlands, incomplete acquisition in Bulgarian Judeo-Spanish, an endangered heritage language, the acquisition under reduced input of Romanian Differential Object Marking (DOM) markers by simultaneous bilinguals and their monolingual peers, the comprehension of which-questions in child Romanian, the L2 learning of the English dative alternation by native speakers of Romanian and the source of cross-linguistic influence in the learning of an aspectual marker in L3 Japanese. All the contributions provide a rich information source for researchers in the domain of linguistics and psycholinguistics, postgraduate linguistics students, the public interested in how heritage languages differ from their homeland counterparts, how simultaneous bilinguals choose between innovative and conservative options when language change is at play, and how cross-linguistic influence operates in bilingualism and second and third language learning.
The volume introduces a collection of thought-provoking studies that cover major topics in monolingual, bilingual and heritage language acquisition as well as L2 and L3 learning. It offers fresh insights into major themes: areas of vulnerability in child heritage Romanian spoken in Italy and in t...
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Anca Sevcenco is an Associate Professor at the University of Bucharest, Romania, where she teaches classes on root clause syntax, second language acquisition from the generative perspective, introduction to experimental linguistics and the development of language and cognition. Her research interests revolve around the acquisition of L1 Romanian wh-questions, relative clauses, clausal and phrasal recursion by monolingual and simultaneous bilingual children (Romanian-Hungarian). She has also conducted studies on the learning of L2 English by monolingual Romanian speakers, with focus on structures at the syntax-discourse interface – topicalization and the comprehension of diary null subjects.
Veronica Tomescu is an Associate Professor at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literature, Department of English, where she teaches courses in pragmatics, syntax and diachronic linguistics. She has a PhD in linguistics at the University of Bucharest. She has done research on bilingual language acquisition (in a Hungarian-Romanian context), with a focus on prepositions and case marking, subject pronouns and clitics. She has also translated a number of fiction and non-fiction books from English into Romanian.
Anca Sevcenco is an Associate Professor at the University of Bucharest, Romania, where she teaches classes on root clause syntax, second language acquisition from the generative perspective, introduction to experimental linguistics and the development of language and cognition. Her research inter...
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