Linguistics and Children's Language Development

The new volume in the Lincom Studies in Language Acquisition and Bilingualism is a Festschrift dedicated to the jubilee of Prof. Dr. Juliana Stoyanova - a leading psycholinguist, known for her studies on Bulgarian and Bulgarian language acquisition. The volume is a collection of articles written by leading experts in the field of linguistics, psychology and language acquisition of Bulgarian, English, Hungarian, Polish and Romani. The articles included in the volume present research findings in the field of children's language development and linguistics. The collection will be interesting for linguists, psycholinguists, and psychologist.Contents: Hristo Kyuchukov: Life dedicated to research Bulgarian children's language development - Richard M. Weist: The acquisition of spatial and temporal systems and the expression of space-time metaphor - Velka Popova: How Bulgarian pre-school children talk about the time? - Natalia Banasik-Jemielniak and Barbara Bokus: Introducing the ICT: Irony Comprehension Task for preschool children - Hristo Kyuchukov, Jill de Villiers and Milan Samko: Acquisition of wh-questions in Romani - Piotr Kalowski and Natalia Banasik-Jemielniak: Current trends in psycholinguistic verbal irony research - Ewa Dryll: Perception of dishonesty in metaphorical anecdotes - Witold Ligeza and Krzysztof Piotrowski: Analogy and the development of cognitive representations - Dimitar Popov: Bulgarian speaking styles as speaker profiles - Ina Vishogradska: Synchrony in structural complexity of consonant clusters in English, Hungarian and Bulgarian - Krassimira Aleksova: Judgments of reliability degree expressed by evidential subcategories - Savelina Banova: The word order of verbal clitics in Bulgarian.