Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Language acquisition and language teaching in the usage-based framework -- I. Theoretical and methodological foundations of language acquisition from a usage-based perspective -- 1. Advances and lacunas in usage-based studies of first language acquisition -- 2. Applied cognitive linguistics and second/ foreign language varieties: Towards an explanatory account -- 3. Acquiring relational meaning from the situational context: What linguists can learn from analyzing videotaped interaction -- 4. Validity issues in longitudinal research -- II. Driving forces of language development -- 5. L1 acquisition beyond input frequency -- 6. Acquiring and processing morpheme constructions: The MultiRep Model -- 7. The development of Dutch object-naming constructions in bilingual Turkish-Dutch children receiving low amounts of Dutch language input -- 8. Acquisition order of connectives in stories of Dutch L1 and L2 children from 4 to 8 -- 9. Acquisition of additive connectives by Russian-German bilinguals: A usage-based approach -- III. Implications for language teaching and translation -- 10. Development of chunks in Dutch L2 learners of English -- 11. Predictive power of controled productive knowledge of collocations over L2 proficiency -- 12. Comparing word sense distinctions with bilingual comparable corpora: A pilot study of adjectives in English and Spanish -- Index