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IASCL series 'Trends in Language Acquisition Research' (TiLAR)

'Trends in Language Acquisition Research' (TiLAR) is the official publication of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL). The TiLAR Series publishes two volumes per three year period in between IASCL congresses.

All volumes in the IASCL-TiLAR Series are invited (but externally reviewed) edited volumes by IASCL members that are strongly thematic in nature and that present cutting edge work which is likely to stimulate further research to the fullest extent.

Besides quality, diversity is also an important consideration in all the volumes: diversity of theoretical and methodological approaches, diversity in the languages studied, diversity in the geographical and academic backgrounds of the contributors. After all, like the IASCL itself, the IASCL-TiLAR Series is there for child language researchers from all over the world.

Although it is IASCL policy to try and link one of the two tri-annual volumes in the Series to the main topic of the preceding IASCL congress, the IASCL-TiLAR series is emphatically not intended as congress or symposia proceedings. This implies that in the volumes related to congress themes there can be contributions by IASCL members that were not presented at the congress.

All IASCL members receive a copy of the two TiLAR volumes published between two IASCL congresses as part of their current membership. We thank the publisher, John Benjamins, for their support (http://www.benjamins.nl/).

Annick De Houwer and Steven Gillis, TiLAR Series Editors

TiLAR Volume 1:
Trends in Bilingual Acquisition, edited by Jasone Cenoz and Fred Genesee,
Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Contents
  1. First words. Fred Genesee & Jasone Cenoz
  2. The simultaneous acquisition of two first languages: early differentiation and subsequent development of grammars. Juergen Meisel
  3. The emergence of verbal morphology and the lead-lag pattern issue in bilingual acquisition. Ludovica Serratrice
  4. Early language differentiation in bilingual infants. Laura Bosch & Nuria Sebastián
  5. Language differentiation by the bilingual infant: Evidence from babbling. Diane Poulin-Dubois & Naomi Goodz
  6. Past tense verb forms, discourse context and input features in bilingual and monolingual acquisition of Basque and Spanish. Itziar Idiazabal & Margareta Almgren
  7. Finding first words in the input: evidence from a bilingual child. Elena Nicoladis
  8. Managing linguistic boundaries in early trilingual development. Suzanne Quay
  9. Bilingual first language acquisition: A discourse perspective on language contact in parent - child interaction. Elizabeth Lanza
  10. Bilingual children's repair strategies. Liane Comeau and Fred Genesee
  11. Final words. Brian MacWhinney

TiLAR Volume 2:
Directions in Sign Language Acquisition, edited by Gary Morgan and Bencie Woll,
Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Contents
  1. Marc Marschark: Foundations of communication and the emergence of language in deaf children
  2. Lodenir Becker Karnopp: Phonology acquisition in Brazilian Sign Language
  3. Nini Hoiting and Dan I.Slobin: Transcription as a tool for understanding: The Berkeley Transcription System for sign language research (BTS)
  4. Elena Pizzuto: The development of Italian Sign Language (LIS) in deaf preschoolers
  5. Richard P. Meier: The acquisition of verb agreement: Pointing out arguments for the linguistic status of agreement in signed languages
  6. Brenda Schick: The expression of grammatical relations by deaf toddlers learning ASL
  7. Judy Reilly and Diane Anderson: FACES: The acquisition of non-manual morphology in ASL
  8. Beppie van den Bogaerde and Anne E. Baker: Are young deaf children bilingual?
  9. Judy Kegl: Language emergence in a language-ready brain: Acquisition
  10. Gary Morgan and Bencie Woll: The development of complex sentences in British Sign Language
  11. Elena V. M. Lieven: Afterword: A view from research on spoken language development
  12. Bencie Woll and Gary Morgan: Conclusions and directions for future research.

TiLAR Volume 3:
Language Development across Childhood and Adolescence, edited by Ruth A. Berman,
Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Contents
  1. Marilyn A. Nippold: Research on later language development: International perspectives
  2. Ruth A. Berman: Between emergence and mastery: The long development route of language acquisition
  3. Julie E. Dockrell and David J. Messer: Lexical acquisition in the eraly school years
  4. Dorit Ravid: Derivational morphology revisited: Later lexical development in Hebrew
  5. Ekaterina Khorounjaia and Liliana Tolchinsky: Discursive constraints on the lexical realization of arguments in Spanish
  6. Cheryl M. Scott: Syntactic ability in children and adolescents with language and learning disabilities
  7. Harriet Jisa: Growing into academic French
  8. SŽbastien Pacton and Michel Fayol: Learning to spell in a deep orthography: The case of French
  9. Asa Wengelin and Sven Stršmqvist: Text-writing development viewed through on-line pausing in Swedish
  10. Shoshana Blum-Kulka: The role of peer interaction in later pragmatic development: The case of speech representation
  11. Joan Peskin and David R. Olson: On reading poetry: Expert and novice knowledge
  12. Liliana Tolchinsky: The nature and scope of later language development

TiLAR Volume 4:
Developmental Theory and Language Disorders, Edited by Paul Fletcher and Jon F. Miller,
Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Contents
  1. Jon F. Miller and Paul Fletcher: Developmental theory and language disorders: Background issues
  2. Michael S.C. Thomas: Constraints on language development: Insights from developmental disorders
  3. Paul Fletcher, Stephanie Stokes and Anita Wong: Constructions and language development: Implications for language impairment
  4. Leonard Abbeduto and Robin S. Chapman: Language development in Down syndrome and fragile X syndrome: Current research and implications for theory and practice
  5. Morton Ann Gernsbacher, Heather M. Geye and Susan Ellis Weismer: The role of language and communication impairments within autism
  6. Karen Schauwers, Steven Gillis and Paul Govaerts: Language acquisition in children with a cochlear implant
  7. Amy R. Lederberg and Patricia E. Spencer: Critical periods in the acquisition of lexical skills: Evidence from deaf individuals
  8. Michael Garman, Deborah James and Vesna Stojanovik: Developmental theory and language disorders: A thematic summary