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Language and mind, especially first language acquisition; linguistic theory of Universal Grammar; cognitive development

Perception, Cognition & Development

Selected Publications

• Lust, B. (1999). Universal grammar: The strong continuity hypothesis in first language acquisition. In W. Ritchie & T. Bhatia (Eds), Handbook of Child Language Acquisition (pp. 111-156). Academic Press.
  
  
• Lust, B., Suner, M., & Whitman, J. (Eds.). (1994). Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives: Vol. 1. Heads, Projections and Learnability. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  
  
• Lust, B., Hermon, G., & Kornfilt, J. (Eds.). (1994). Syntactic Theory and First Language Acquisition: Cross-Linguistic Perspectives: Vol. 2. Binding, Dependencies and Learnability. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum.
  
  
• Mazuka, R., & Lust, B. (1990). On parameter-setting and parsing: Predictions for acquisition. In L. Frazier & J. de Villiers (Eds.), Language Processing and Language Acquisition (pp. 163-206). Holland: Klumer.
  
  

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