Movement and Clitics: Adult and Child Grammar

Vicenc Torrens (Ph.D. University of Barcelona) is associate professor at the Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia in Madrid. His research interests are the acquisition of clitic pronouns, tense, agreement, mood and aspect in first language and language impairment. He has been a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a visiting scholar at Harvard University. His work has appeared in different series of John Benjamins, Kluwer and Prentice Hall. Linda Escobar (Ph.D. University of Utrecht) is associate professor at the Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia in Madrid. She has written on Spanish and English syntax and first and second language acquisition under the generative approach. She is co-editor of the monograph The Acquisition of Syntax of Romance Languages (with Vicenc Torrens). Her work has also appeared in different series of John Benjamins and Peter Lang. Anna Gavarro (Ph.D. University of Edinburgh) currently lectures at the Department de Filologia Catalana of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. Her research interests are the acquisition of syntax and the syntax of agrammatic aphasia. She has published mostly on Romance and her work includes articles in Language Acquisition, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, and a chapter in the reference grammar of Catalan. Maria Juncal Gutierrez (Ph.D. University of the Basque Country) is assistant professor at the Department of Linguistics and Basque Studies at the University of the Basque Country. Her research interests include the acquisition of syntax, mainly wh- movement structures, in L2/L3 English as well as L1 Basque and L1 Spanish. Besides, she is currently working on the processing of language.