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

Annick De Houwer and Steven Gillis were the TiLAR volume editors for volumes 1 through 6 in the TiLAR series. They were the General Editors on behalf of the IASCL from 1999 until 2008, and stepped down as editors at the IASCL conference in Edinburgh (July 2008).

All the books published in TiLAR so far are still available from the publisher, John Benjamins (http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/welcome.cgi) at a discounted price for IASCL members.

The TiLAR series continues in a somewhat different format under the new editorship of Shanley Allen and Caroline Rowland.

Annick and Steven thank the IASCL and the TiLAR editorial board for their support and wish the new editors all the best of luck.

New Series Editors for TiLAR

John Benjamins Publishing is pleased to announce that Shanley E. M. Allen (Boston University) and Caroline F. Rowland (University of Liverpool) have agreed to become the new series editors for Trends in Language Acquisition Research (TiLAR).

Shanley Allen (PhD, McGill University) is an Associate Professor in the School of Education at Boston University, USA. Her research focuses on how the morphosyntactic structure of a language affects the patterns of development in that language. She is best known for her work on the acquisition of Inuktitut (Eskimo) as well as the acquisition of argument structure and argument realization. She has published numerous articles and chapters on language acquisition, and has served for several years as Associate Editor of the Journal of Child Language.

Caroline Rowland (PhD, University of Nottingham) is a senior lecturer in the School of Psychology at the University of Liverpool, UK. Her research focuses on the question of how children acquire their first language, with the aim of developing and testing constructivist models of the language acquisition process. She is best known for her work on English children's acquisition of questions and auxiliaries and she has written, edited and contributed to a number of books and journals on first language acquisition.

TiLAR publishes monographs, edited volumes and text books on theoretical and methodological issues in the field of child language research. The focus of the series is on original research on all aspects of the scientific study of language behavior in children, linking different areas of research including linguistics, psychology & cognitive science.

The editors welcome proposals for thematic collections and monographs, focusing on work with a constructivist/non-generativist slant. TiLAR wants to publish sound empirical work (including research monographs based on PhD theses of an excellent standard) and to encourage debates and discussions.

Shanley Allen and Caroline Rowland will be assisted by an editorial board consisting of:

Ruth Berman, Tel Aviv University
Morten Christiansen, Cornell University
Jean Berko Gleason, Boston University
Nancy Budwig, Clark University
Ewa Dabrowska, University of Sheffield
Philip S. Dale, University of New Mexico
Paul Fletcher, University College Cork
Steven Gillis, University of Antwerp
Annick De Houwer, University of Erfurt
Elena Lieven, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Brian MacWhinney, Carnegie Mellon University
Marilyn Vihman, University of York

For book proposals please contact one of the series editors: Shanley Allen, Caroline Rowland, or the publisher.

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

TiLAR Volume 5:
Early Language Development: Bridging Brain and Behaviour, edited by Angela D. Friederici and Guillaume Thierry,
Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Contents
  1. Claudia Männel: The method of event-related brain potentials in the study of cognitive processes: A tutorial
  2. Barbara T. Conboy, Maritza Rivera-Gaxiola, Juan Silva-Pereyra and Patricia K. Kuhl: Event-related potential studies of early language processing at the phoneme, word, and sentence levels
  3. Thierry Nazzi, Galina Iakimova, Josiane Bertoncini, Sylvain Mottet, Josette Serres and Scania de Schonen: Behavioral and electrophysiological exploration of early word segmentation in French: Distinguishing the syllabic and lexical levels.
  4. Valesca Kooijman, Elizabeth K. Johnson and Anne Cutler: Reflections on reflections of infant word recognition 
  5. Guillaume Thierry and Marilyn May Vihman: The onset of word form recognition: A behavioural and neurophysiological study
  6. Manuela Friedrich: Neurophysiological correlates of picture-word priming in one-year-olds
  7. Elizabeth A. Sheehan and Debra L. Mills: The effects of early word learning on brain development
  8. Jacques Mehler, Ansgar Endress, Judit Gervain and Marina Nespor: From perception to grammar
  9. Angela D. Friederici and Regine Oberecker: The development of syntactic brain correlates during the first years of life
  10. David Poeppel and Akira Omaki: Language acquisition and ERP approaches: Prospects and challenges

TiLAR Volume 6:
Corpora in Language Acquisition Research: History, Methods, Perspectives, edited by Heike Behrens,
Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Contents
  1. Heike Behrens: Corpora in language acquisition research: History, methods, perspectives
  2. Caroline F. Rowland, Sarah L. Fletcher and Daniel Freudenthal: How big is big enough? Assessing the reliability of data from naturalistic samples
  3. Dorit Ravid, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Bracha Nir-Sagiv, Katharina Korecky-Kröll, Agnita Souman, Katja Rehfeldt, Sabine Laaha, Johannes Bertl, Hans Basbøll and Steven Gillis: Core morphology in child directed speech: Crosslinguistic corpus analyses of noun plurals
  4. Elena Lieven: Learning the English auxiliary: A usage-based approach
  5. Shanley Allen, Barbora Skarabela and Mary Hughes: Using corpora to examine discourse effects in syntax
  6. Padraic Monaghan and Morten H. Christiansen: Integration of multiple probabilistic cues in syntax acquisition
  7. Brian MacWhinney: Enriching CHILDES for morphosyntactic analysis
  8. Katherine Demuth: Exploiting corpora for language acquisition research