DAVID D. MALVERN is Head of the Institute of Education at the University of Reading, UK. A mathematical scientist, he has been Research Officer at the Royal Society, Visiting Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at McGill University, and a European Union and British Council Consultant. BRIAN J. RICHARDS is Professor of Education at the University of Reading, UK. A former teacher of German and English, he obtained a doctorate in first language development from the University of Bristol and is also a member of the editorial team of the Journal of Child Language . NGONI CHIPERE is Lecturer in Language Arts at the University of the West Indies in Barbados. He has an MA in… Applied Linguistics from the University of Sussex and a PhD in Experimental Psycholinguistics from the University of Cambridge. He has been a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate and at The University of Reading. His research interests include psycholinguistics, written language development and corpus linguistics. He is author of Understanding Complex Sentences: Native Speaker Variation in Syntactic Competence published by Palgrave in 2004. PILAR DUR�_N is Marketing Consultant at Research Solutions Ltd. Following her doctoral studies at Boston University, she became a Research Officer at the University of Reading. Her academic work and publications deal with issues concerning first language acquisition and the learning of a second language by migrant workers.
DAVID D. MALVERN is Head of the Institute of Education at the University of Reading, UK. A mathematical scientist, he has been Research Officer at the Royal Society, Visiting Professor in the Department of Educational Psychology at McGill University, and a European Union and British Council Consultant. BRIAN J. RICHARDS is Professor of Education at the University of Reading, UK. A former teacher of German and English, he obtained a doctorate in first language development from the University of Bristol and is also a member of the editorial team of the Journal of Child Language . NGONI CHIPERE is Lecturer in Language Arts at the University of the West Indies in Barbados. He has an MA in… Applied Linguistics from the University of Sussex and a PhD in Experimental Psycholinguistics from the University of Cambridge. He has been a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate and at The University of Reading. His research interests include psycholinguistics, written language development and corpus linguistics. He is author of Understanding Complex Sentences: Native Speaker Variation in Syntactic Competence published by Palgrave in 2004. PILAR DUR�_N is Marketing Consultant at Research Solutions Ltd. Following her doctoral studies at Boston University, she became a Research Officer at the University of Reading. Her academic work and publications deal with issues concerning first language acquisition and the learning of a second language by migrant workers.