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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">I am very pleased to announce the publication of a new volume of the book series Trends in Language Acquisition Research:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">The Acquisition of Ergativity,</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> edited by Edith L. Bavin
and Sabine Stoll<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Default"><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Description</span></u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Ergativity is one of the main challenges both for linguistic and acquisition theories. This book is unique, taking a cross-linguistic approach to the acquisition of ergativity
in a large variety of typologically distinct languages. The chapters cover languages from different families and from different geographic areas with different expressions of ergativity. Each chapter includes a description of ergativity in the language(s),
the nature of the input, the social context of acquisition and developmental patterns. Comparisons of the acquisition process across closely related languages are made, change in progress of the ergative systems is discussed and, for one language, acquisition
by bilingual and monolingual children is compared. The volume will be of particular interest to language acquisition researchers, linguists, psycholinguists and cognitive scientists.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:7.55pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:7.55pt;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">“This important and path-breaking book will be a treat for researchers who work on ergativity. And
psychologists who find it difficult to imagine alternative universes will be taken on a voyage of discovery, led by skilled guides. Prevailing acquisition models are challenged by the diversity of ergative systems. This book presents the diversity clearly
enough to stimulate new thinking about child language, as well as linguistic universals.”
<b>Dan I. Slobin</b>, <i>University of California, Berkeley</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">More details are on the attached flyer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Happy holidays,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">Caro<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:windowtext">---------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Prof Caroline Rowland
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Department of Psychological Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">University of Liverpool<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">LIVERPOOL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">L69 7ZA<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Tel: +44 151 794 2942<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Fax: +44 151 794 2945<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Email:
<a href="mailto:crowland@liverpool.ac.uk"><span style="color:#1F497D">crowland@liverpool.ac.uk</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Personal website:
<a href="http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~crowland/"><span style="color:#1F497D">http://pcwww.liv.ac.uk/~crowland/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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