Studying the acquisition of modality: An introduction -- Requests in first language acquisition of German: Evidence from high and low SES families -- Gender differences in the acquisition of requests in Lithuanian -- Development of directive expressions in Russian adult-child communication -- Acquisition of modality in Croatian -- Competition of grammatical forms in the expression of directives in early French child speech and child-directed speech -- On the acquisition of dynamic, deontic and epistemic uses of modal verbs in Romanian -- Development of modality in early Greek language acquisition -- Acquisition of requests in Estonian -- Directives in Finnish language acquisition -- Modality in child Hebrew -- Epistemic modality in Russian child language -- Epistemic and evidential modality in early Turkish child speech -- The development of sentence-ending epistemic/evidential markers in young Korean children -- The acquisition of evidentiality in two Mayan languages, Yukatek and Tojolabal.
Summary:
Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts.
Series:
Studies on language acquisition, 1861-4248 ; volume 54
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