About this Research Topic
The Association for the Study of Language Acquisition (AEAL) promotes the study of language acquisition and development, both in monolingual and multilingual situations, paying special attention to the acquisition of Spanish, Basque, Catalan and Galician, as well as to the relationship of language with psychological, social, educational and biological processes.
Submissions to this Research Topic welcome works that have been presented at the AEAL Congress. To submit an article, the corresponding author must be a registered presenter at the Congress and should submit an abstract for review by the Topic Editors before 15 September 2023.
Submissions are welcome on the following topics:
• phonetic and phonological acquisition
• acquisition of Morphosyntax
• lexical-semantic development
• development of discourse and pragmatics
• acquisition of sign language
• literacy acquisition and development
• language acquisition in bilingual and multilingual contexts
• developmental language disorders
• language learning and acquisition
• new methodological approaches for the study of language acquisition.
Keywords: Child language acquisition, Phonetics and phonology, Morphosyntax, Lexic and semantics;, Pragmatics and discourse
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