Minimalist Inquiries into Child and Adult Language Acquisition Case Studies across Portuguese

The first volume of its kind, it focuses on generative approaches to the acquisition problem and its interface with language change and dialectal variation. The papers address current issues in morphosyntactic theory raised by micro-variation between European and Brazilian Portuguese. The book is highly recommended for anyone interested in the development of language across generations and geography.
(Nina Hyams, Professor of Linguistics,
University of California, Los Angeles)

This volume makes a substantial contribution to cognitive science because it uses extremely valuable descriptive and experimental data to address both the logical and the developmental problem of primary and non-primary language acquisition.
(Juana M. Liceras, Professor of Spanish and Linguistics,
University of Ottawa)