A child’s first word is an eagerly awaited milestone in most households and parents worry if there appears to be a delay in learning to talk. Of the four child-development checks, the most crucial one ...

The focus of this part of the project is on child language acquisition. We investigate how children deal with overabundance and defectiveness in their language input, which overabundant forms they ...

This chapter provides a broad overview of the findings from research on bilingualism and second-language learning, including types of bilingualism, linguistic aspects of second-language acquisition, ...