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This number of papers investigates particular linguistic phenomena from the viewpoint of first- and second-language acquisition. whereas observations at the acquisition of scrambling or pronominal clitics are available within the literature, up until eventually the new earlier they have been sparse and sometimes buried in different matters. This quantity fills a long-existing hole in offering a suite of articles which concentrate on language acquisition yet while handle the overarching syntactic concerns concerned (for instance, the X-bar prestige of clitics, base-generation vs. flow money owed of scrambling). This quantity includes an summary of L1 (and, in a single case, L2) acquisition info from a few diversified languages together with Bernese, Swiss, German, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish, in addition to from numerous theoretical issues of view with those clause-internal approaches at its middle. those language acquisition facts are thought of to be an important within the validation of analyses of those particular linguistic phenomena in grownup grammars. The contributions during this quantity contain the earliest suggestions during this vein and, accordingly, can be considered as a kick off point for discussions inside of theoretical linguistics and language acquisition alike.

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