In this book, Stroik and Putnam take on Turing's challenge. They argue that the narrow syntax – the lexicon, the Numeration, and the computational system – must reside, for reasons of conceptual necessity, within the performance systems.
Special Double Issue on Linguistic Interfaces and Language Acquisition in
Childhood
Guest editors: Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes and Jason Rothman
Editorial Introduction:
-Linguistic interfaces and language acquisition in childhood: Introduction to the
special issue
Articles:
-The development of articles in children’s early Spanish: Prosodic interactions
between lexical and grammatical form
-Articles in child L2 English: When L1 and L2 acquisition meet at the interface
-Interactive processing of contrastive expressions by Russian children
-Overt subjects and copula omission in the Spanish and the English grammar of
English–Spanish bilinguals: On the locus and directionality of interlinguistic
influence
-The lexical interface in L1 acquisition: What children have to say about radical
concept nativism
-Explaining children’s over-use of definites in partitive contexts
-Clitics in L1 bilingual acquisition
-Comprehension of intersentential pronouns in child German and child Bulgarian
-The null-subject parameter at the interface between syntax and pragmatics:
Evidence from bilingual German–Italian, German–French and Italian–French
children
-Eventivity effects in early grammar: The case of non-finite verbs
Commentaries:
-Overcoming language barriers: Interfaces between disciplines
-Studies at the interface of child language and models of language acquisition