Introduction

Abstract

The papers selected for this volume deal with several topics of both L1 and L2 acquisition of Portuguese. The research reported on each of the papers relies on empirically robust sets of data and covers different aspects of the acquisition of the European and the Brazilian varieties of Portuguese. The authors use different theoretical frameworks and formal tools to evaluate evidence from the perception and the production modules. Their main goal is however the same: they all seek to a better understanding of the path of language development as means to access the architecture behind grammatical processing.