Jennifer Austin

TL;DR: A new developmental hypothesis is concluded: development in question formation occurs in integrating language-specific knowledge related to inflection with the principles of Universal Grammar which allow grammatical inversion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors claim that there is evidence of grammatical interference in the development of ergative case in bilingual children acquiring Basque and Spanish, which takes the form of reinforcing a non-target-like option in Basque (Muller and Hulk, 2001).

TL;DR: This article examined the acquisition of verbal agreement morphology in a cross-sectional study of 20 bilingual children and 19 monolingual children acquiring Basque and Spanish and found that some of the bilingual children produce more root infinitives (RIs) in Basque than the non-Bilingual children.

TL;DR: The authors investigated the effect of cross-linguistic influence at the pragmatics-syntax interface of Spanish-English bilingual preschool-age children and found that bilingual children were the only group to consistently calculate the scalar implicature associated with algunos.

TL;DR: The challenges arising from interpreting linguistic phenomena where lexical, semantic, and pragmatic information intersect are highlighted, and there is a call for further investigation with bilinguals in a rapidly growing area where bilingual research is lacking.