Contents

Jacqueline van Kampen, Towards a Theory of Language Acquisition.

Larisa Avram and Martine Coene, Object Clitics as Last Resort. Implications for language acquisition.

Giovana Bonilha, Carolina Lisbôa Mezzomo and Regina Ritter Lamprecht, The Role of Syllable Structure in the Acquisition of Brazilian Portuguese.

Laura Domínguez, The L2 Acquisition of Spanish Focus. A case of incomplete and divergent grammars.

Linda Escobar and Vicenç Torrens, On the Acquisition of Clitic Se and Aspect in Spanish.

Jacqueline van Kampen and Manuela Pinto, Germanic and Romance Discourse Devices in Acquisition.

Juana Liceras, Susana Perales and Aurora Bel, Modality, Non-Finite Forms and the Manifestation of the RI Stage in Null and Non-Null Subject Languages.

Ruth Lopes, Acquiring a Null Object Language. When children sound target-like, but really aren't.

Katérina Palasis-Jourdan and Michèle Oliviéri, Beyond Deficiency. Reconsidering the null subject phenomenon.

Margot Rozendaal, The Acquisition of the Morphosyntax-Pragmatic Interface in French L1. Evidence from reference with articles and pronouns.

Raquel Santos and Paula Fikkert, The Relationship between Word Prosodic Structure and Sentence Prosody. (Non)evidence from Brazilian Portuguese.

Ludovica Serratrice, Null and Overt Subjects at the Syntax-Discourse Interface. Evidence from monolingual and bilingual acquisition.

Roberta Tedeschi, Referring Expressions in Early Italian. A study on the use of lexical objects, pronouns and null objects in Italian pre-school children