Language in development : a crosslinguistic perspective Five questions about language learning Virginia Valian Coordinate compounds in theory and practice D. Terence Langendoen Hard words Lila Gleitman Kimberly Cassidy Rebecca Nappa Anna Papafragou John C. Trueswell Elicited imitation in first language acquisition research : cognitive grounding and cross linguistic application Cristina Dye Claire Foley The development of person and number agreement in child heritage speakers of Spanish learning English as a second language Jennifer Austin Liliana Sánchez Silvia Pérez Cortes and David Giancaspro The role of gestures in first and second language acquisition : a case study of a Hebrew English bilingual child Yarden Kedar Discourse morphosyntax interaction in the acquisition of Spanish finite and non finite verbs María Blume A hybrid approach to infant directed speech Reiko Mazuka Discontinuous dependent morphemes in German and English parental speech : input differences between two languages Lynn Santelmann Syntactic ambiguity resolution in native and nonnative speakers of Chinese Yun Yao and Jerome Packard The tense puzzle in second language acquisition Gita Martohardjono Virginia Valian and Elaine Klein Bilingual processing of the first learned language : are heritage speakers and late bilinguals really that different Ian Phillips Gita Martohardjono Christen N. Madsen II Richard G. Schwartz Identifying early language changes in Alzheimers Disease : extrapolating lessons learned from methodologies used in investigating first language acquisition Janet Cohen Sherman Suzanne Flynn. An edited collection of prominent scholars in the field of language acquisition and development focusing primarily on syntax and morphosyntax from formalist generative perspective