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This volume brings together chapters written by specialists in
North America, Europe and Brazil. It includes original research
about the acquisition (L1, bilingualism) and acquisition/ learning
(L2 or L3) of dialects of Brazilian and European Portuguese. In an
effort to maximize volume cohesion, the emphasis has been on
contributions that present studies exploring both
empirical/experimental and theoretical aspects of the acquisition
of syntax, and its interfaces with morphology, with
semantics/pragmatics, and with language change. Within the
generative paradigm alone there are various volumes on the
acquisition of other languages, but there are no volumes currently
in print focusing on the acquisition of Portuguese. We believe that
it is time for such a volume, considering among other factors that
Portuguese is the second most widely spoken Romance language
(second only to Spanish), and the seventh most widely spoken
language in the world. In addition, the significant changes that
have taken place between Brazilian and European Portuguese
especially since the 19th century make the inquiry into the
acquisition of the different dialects a source for very productive
insights about the connections between linguistic theory, language
acquisition and language change. Finally, having a collection of
high quality articles in one place pays homage to the importance
for linguistic research of investigations into the acquisition of
the Portuguese language.
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