Second Language Acquisition

Abstract

This chapter presents a brief overview of some of the research issues and topics which have been the object of current research on the acquisition of European Portuguese (EP) and Brazilian Portuguese (BP) as a second language (L2). It first provides a brief introduction to some of the research questions which have dominated recent L2 acquisition research. The chapter then reviews studies on L2 Portuguese. It concentrates on five topics which have received some attention in recent literature: pronominal clitic and null objects, inflected infinitives, aspect, verb movement, and pronominal subjects. The recent literature on the acquisition of Portuguese has also revealed a growing interest in heritage language and third language (L3) acquisition, following a trend which has been observed for other languages. It concludes with a brief balance of what these studies have taught us and of the questions which they raise for future research.

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