The research published in Language Acquisition makes a clear contribution to linguistic theory by increasing our understanding of how language is acquired. The journal focuses on the acquisition of ...

When learning a specialist subject it is necessary to use specific language skills, alongside the specialist language content. However, children from educationally deprived backgrounds or those with ...

Language acquisition in humans relies on abilities like abstraction and use of syntactic rules, which are absent in other animals. The neural correlate of acquiring new linguistic competence was ...

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