Recently, language acquisition research from the generative paradigm has turned its attention to investigating heritage language bilingualism in the hopes that studying the adult competence outcomes of these childhood bilinguals can inform key issues pertaining to bilingual acquisition more generally as well as issues relating to L1 attrition and adult L2 acquisition theorizing (see Montrul 200...

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The topic of the syntax-phonology interface is broad, encompassing different submodules of grammar and interactions of these. This chapter addresses one fundamental aspect of the syntax-phonology interface in detail: the relation between syntactic constituency and the prosodic constituent domains for sentence-level phonological and phonetic phenomena. Two further core aspects, which rely on an ...

The following main ideas have been pointed out and put to work within our paper: (a) Information Structure (IS) theories (topic-focus, theme-rheme, background-contrast, informational and contrastive focus, focus projection rules, etc.) on text are shown to behave currently as a consistent linguistic tool that can stand behind a correct, language and contextual-depending, mapping of text into sp...

Professor Uli Reich holds an MA in Spanish Literature from the University of Munich (1996), a PhD Romance Language Linguistics (2000) and “Habilitation” Cologne. He has worked as Scientific Collaborator at Cologne Visiting Foreign Postgraduate Program Vernacular Letters Federal Rio de Janeiro. Since 2008 he is Ordinary Freie Universität Berlin. experience Linguistics, with emphasis on Linguisti...

Through language, we are able to assign symbolic analyses to linguistic entities physical objects and events whose complexity has no intrinsic upper bound. Such symbolic analyses are abstract, since a single physical entity can support distinct analyses. Yet we have partial intuitive access to the properties of these analyses through their projections in different 'dimensions', including the wi...