Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of abbreviations used in the present volume -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Early nominal morphology in Turkish: Emergence of case and number -- Acquisition of case and plural in Finnish -- The acquisition of numeral classifiers and optional plural marking in Yucatec Maya -- The early development of case and number in Estonian -- The acquisition of case, number, and gender in Croatian -- Acquisition of case and number in Russian -- The emergence of nominal inflection in Greek -- The acquisition of number and case in Austrian German nouns -- The emergence of nominal number in Italian -- Number morphology in Spanish first language acquisition -- Relations between the development of the category of nominal and verbal number in two French-speaking children -- Noun plurals in early Palestinian Arabic: A longitudinal case study -- Backmatter.

Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts.

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