New Topics in Monolingual and Multilingual Language Acquisition

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.