Trends in Language Acquisition Research (TiLAR)
Trends in Language Acquisition Research (TiLAR) was started as an IASCL-sponsored book series by Annick De Houwer and Steven Gillis in 1999.
The TiLAR series is published by John Benjamins, although it is no longer sponsored by the IASCL. It is a premier outlet for child language research: "TiLAR publishes monographs, edited volumes and text books on theoretical and methodological issues in the field of child language research. The focus of the series is on original research on all aspects of the scientific study of language behavior in children, linking different areas of research including linguistics, psychology & cognitive science".
So far (February 2023) 32 volumes have been published. Annick De Houwer and Steven Gillis were Series Editors until 2008 (volumes 1-6), after which Shanley Allen and Caroline Rowland took over (volumes 7-23). Evan Kidd took over from Caroline Rowland in 2018 (as of volume 24).
For book proposals please contact one of the series editors: Shanley Allen, Evan Kidd, or the publisher.
Call for Monographs and Edited Volumes
The TiLAR editors Shanley Allen and Evan Kidd have opened a general call for monographs and edited volumes on all topics covering issues in child language acquisition. They are especially looking for volumes with state-of-the-art collections of papers that synthesise research on specific languages and language families. This aims to provide an avenue to promote past work on languages that have received less attention in the literature, thus highlighting the value of language diversity to our discipline. Their goal is to publish several such volumes in 2025 and beyond to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the publication of Slobin’s seminal Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition series.
Potential authors and editors are encourages to contact the editors at allen@rptu.de or evan.kidd@anu.edu.au. The John Benjamins guide for book proposals can be found here: https://benjamins.com/content/authors/bookproposals.
Volumes per February 2023
32 Child L2 Writers: A Room of Their Own
Amparo Lázaro-Ibarrola
2023. xi, 236 pp.
31 Syntactic Priming in Language Acquisition: Representations, mechanisms and applications
Edited by Katherine Messenger
2022. viii, 226 pp.
30 The Acquisition of Complex Morphology: Insights from Murrinhpatha
William Forshaw
2021. xvi, 171 pp.
29 Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings: LITMUS in action across Europe
Edited by Sharon Armon-Lotem and Kleanthes K. Grohmann
2021. vi, 333 pp.
28 The Acquisition of Referring Expressions: A dialogical approach
Edited by Anne Salazar-Orvig, Geneviève de Weck, Rouba Hassan and Annie Rialland
2021. xix, 372 pp.
27 Current Perspectives on Child Language Acquisition: How children use their environment to learn
Edited by Caroline F. Rowland, Anna L. Theakston, Ben Ambridge and Katherine E. Twomey
2020. ix, 330 pp.
26 The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking
Edited by Alexandru Mardale and Silvina Montrul
2020. vi, 369 pp.
25 Understanding Deafness, Language and Cognitive Development: Essays in honour of Bencie Woll
Edited by Gary Morgan
2020. xv, 214 pp.
24 Semantics in Language Acquisition
Edited by Kristen Syrett and Sudha Arunachalam
2018. vi, 391 pp.
23 The Development of Prosody in First Language Acquisition
Edited by Pilar Prieto and Núria Esteve-Gibert
2018. vi, 368 pp.
22 Sources of Variation in First Language Acquisition: Languages, contexts, and learners
Edited by Maya Hickmann †, Edy Veneziano and Harriet Jisa
2018. x, 444 pp.
21 Social Environment and Cognition in Language Development: Studies in honor of Ayhan Aksu-Koç
Edited by F. Nihan Ketrez, Aylin C. Küntay, Şeyda Özçalışkan and Aslı Özyürek
2017. xii, 242 pp.
20 The Acquisition of Turkish in Childhood
Edited by Belma Haznedar and F. Nihan Ketrez
2016. viii, 416 pp.
19 Acquisition and Development of Hebrew: From infancy to adolescence
Edited by Ruth A. Berman
2016. xvii, 404 pp.
18 Starting Over – The Language Development in Internationally-Adopted Children
Edited by Fred Genesee and Audrey Delcenserie
2016. vii, 208 pp.
17 Linguistic Rhythm and Literacy
Edited by Jenny Thomson and Linda Jarmulowicz
2016. xiv, 286 pp.
16 Trilingual Language Acquisition: Contextual factors influencing active trilingualism in early childhood
Sarah Chevalier
2015. x, 225 pp.
15 The Acquisition of Reference
Edited by Ludovica Serratrice and Shanley E.M. Allen
2015. vi, 339 pp.
14 The Acquisition of Inflection in Q’anjob’al Maya
Pedro Mateo Pedro
2015. xiii, 144 pp.
13 Input and Experience in Bilingual Development
Edited by Theres Grüter and Johanne Paradis
2014. ix, 204 pp.
12 Language in Interaction: Studies in honor of Eve V. Clark
Edited by Inbal Arnon, Marisa Casillas, Chigusa Kurumada and Bruno Estigarribia
2014. xi, 358 pp.
11 Communication in Autism
Edited by Joanne Arciuli and Jon Brock
2014. vi, 275 pp.
10 Pragmatic Development in First Language Acquisition
Edited by Danielle Matthews
2014. vi, 394 pp.
9 The Acquisition of Ergativity
Edited by Edith L. Bavin and Sabine Stoll
2013. v, 341 pp.
8 The Acquisition of Relative Clauses: Processing, typology and function
Edited by Evan Kidd
2011. viii, 244 pp.
7 Experience, Variation and Generalization: Learning a first language
Edited by Inbal Arnon and Eve V. Clark
2011. x, 300 pp.
6 Corpora in Language Acquisition Research: History, methods, perspectives
Edited by Heike Behrens
2008. xxx, 234 pp.
5 Early Language Development: Bridging brain and behaviour
Edited by Angela D. Friederici and Guillaume Thierry
2008. xiv, 263 pp.
4 Developmental Theory and Language Disorders
Edited by Paul Fletcher and Jon F. Miller
2005. x, 217 pp.
3 Language Development across Childhood and Adolescence
Edited by Ruth A. Berman
2004. xiv, 308 pp.
2 Directions in Sign Language Acquisition
Edited by Gary Morgan and Bencie Woll
2002. xx, 339 pp.
1 Trends in Bilingual Acquisition
Edited by Jasone Cenoz and Fred Genesee
2001. viii, 288 pp.