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Bringing together selected papers from the conference “The Romance Turn VII” held in Venice in October 2015, this volume focuses on a broad range of topics at the heart of the current debate on language acquisition, including clitic pronouns, left-dislocations, passives, relative clauses, and wh-questions. It explores these topics within a range of different acquisition settings, such as L1 and L2 acquisition, bilingualism, typical and atypical development. In addition to syntax, the volume covers other modules of grammar, namely, semantics, pragmatics, and phonology, and adds a perspective on language processing to current discussions on the acquisition of Romance languages.This book also includes contributions on atypical language acquisition in cases of deafness and on language intervention based on formal linguistics. It will appeal not only to scholars and students interested in the nature and processes behind first, second and bilingual language acquisition, and impaired language acquisition, but also to language educators and clinicians.

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Anna Cardinaletti is a specialist of comparative syntax and (a)typical language acquisition. Her publications include four books, 16 edited volumes, and 134 articles on theoretical and experimental linguistics. She coordinates the Venice Accessibility Lab, Italy, and is, along with her co-editors, a linguist at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.Chiara Branchini is a sign language specialist. Her publications include one book, one edited volume, and 32 articles on the syntax of sign languages, code-blending in bimodal bilinguals, and (a)typical language acquisition. She is one of the authors of A Grammar of Italian Sign Language (2020). Giuliana Giusti is a specialist of formal syntax and its applications to language education, language awareness, and gender identity. She has published four books, including Nominal Syntax at the Interfaces (2015), seven edited volumes, and 85 articles.Francesca Volpato is a specialist of typical and atypical language acquisition in cases of deafness and learning difficulties, on which she has published one book and 32 articles. She coordinates the Laboratory of Linguistics for Deafness and Language Disorders, at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

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