37.763, Books: The Acquisition of Relativization: Lust, Flynn, Foley, Henderson, and Gair (2026)

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Date: 20-Feb-2026
From: Ellena Moriarty [rfsupport at cambridge.org]
Subject: The Acquisition of Relativization: Lust, Flynn, Foley, Henderson, and Gair (2026)


Title: The Acquisition of Relativization
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics   173
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
           http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics
Book URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/ch/universitypress/subjects/languages-linguistics/psycholinguistics-and-neurolinguistics/acquisition-relativization?format=HB&isbn=9781009373715

Author(s): Barbara Lust; Suzanne Flynn; Claire Foley; Jr., Charles R.
Henderson; James W. Gair

Hardback ISBN:  9781009373715 Pages:  221 Price: U.K. £ 105.00
Hardback ISBN:  9781009373715 Pages:  221 Price: Europe EURO 122.55
Hardback ISBN:  9781009373715 Pages:  221 Price: U.S. $ 140.00

Abstract:

How does a biologically-programmed language faculty interact with
language experience in the acquisition of language across the world?
Bringing together linguistic theory, language typology, and
cross-linguistic experimental results from parallel studies of
development in language acquisition, this book reports new research on
the nature of the human competence for language acquisition.  It
investigates the acquisition of complex sentence formation through
relativization -a fundamental component of language knowledge- through
systematic, formally explicit, hypothesis-driven experimental studies
from English, French and Tulu (in the US, Belgium and India). It
demonstrates that across languages, the course of acquisition shares
basic properties in keeping with universals of a language faculty,
while at the same time, in all languages, specific relativization
forms are achieved through development. The results show the power of
an approach to the study of language acquisition which bridges
linguistic theory of Universal Grammar with real-time creation of a
specific language by the child.

Written In: English (eng)



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