 | x + 739 pages (2-volume set) publication date: March 1997 ISBN 978-1-57473-022-7 paperback, $60.00 ISBN 978-1-57473-122-4 library binding, $125.00 |
Volume 1
The Acquisition of Communicative Competence:
The Use of Basque Vernacular/Standard in 8 and 10 Year Olds
Estibaliz Amorrortu 1
Children and Reflexivity
Sergey Avrutin and Jennifer Cunningham 13
Features and Projections: Arguments for
the Full Competence Hypothesis
Hagit Borer and Bernhard Rohrbacher 24
Quantification of Solid and Nonsolid Entities:
The Role of Perceived Arbitrariness of Structure
Jane Burger and Sandeep Prasada 36
The Role of the Determiner in the Semantic
Interpretation of NP-Type Nouns
Tracey Burns and Nancy Soja 45
Null Objects in Bilingual Andean Spanish
Jose Camacho, Liliana Paredes, and Liliana Sanchez 56
Psych Predicates and Binding in Second Language Acquisition
Dongdong Chen 67
Can Young Bilingual Children Identify their Language Choice
as a Cause of Breakdown in Communication?
Liane Comeau, Fred Genesee,
Elena Nicoladis, and Georgia Vrakas 79
Linguistic and Cultural Aspects of Simplicity
and Complexity in Inuktitut Child Directed Speech
Martha B. Crago and Shanley E.M. Allen 91
Syntactic Development in Children
with Hemispherectomy: The Infl-System
Susan Curtiss and Jeannette Schaeffer 103
Developmental Language Impairment (DLI)
and Diminuitive Formation in Greek
J. Dalalakis 115
Language Impairment in Zulu
Katherine Demuth and Susan Suzman 124
Complementing Cognition:
The Relationship Between Language and Theory of Mind
Jill de Villiers and Jennie Pyers 136
A Psycholinguistic Investigation of Clitic
Placement in Second Language Acquisition
Nigel Duffield, Philippe Prevost, and Lydia White 148
Acquiring Verb Morphology: German Past Participles
Hilke Elsen 160
On Assessing the Distinctive Properties of Child Grammar:
The Case of Relative Clause Production in French
Cathy Fragman 170
Syllable Omission in the Acquisition of Spanish
Sylvia Gennari and Katherine Demuth 182
Artificial Grammar Learning in One-year-olds:
Evidence for Generalization to New Structure
Rebecca L. Gomez and LouAnn Gerken 194
The French 'Delay of Principle B' Effect
Cornelia Hamann, Odette Kowalski, and William Philip 205
Subject Omission in Child Danish
Cornelia Hamann and Kim Plunkett 220
Logophoric Binding and Condition A in Adult L2A
Robert Hamilton 233
L2 Acquisition by a Turkish-Speaking Child:
Evidence for L1 Influence
Belma Haznedar 245
Are There Optional Infinitives in Child L2 Acquisition?
Belma Haznedar and Bonnie Schwartz 257
The Acquisition of Negative Concord in Non-Standard English
Alison Henry, Rose Maclaren,
John Wilson, and Cathy Finlay 269
Parametric Variation in L2 French Speakers
Julia Herschensohn 281
The Underspecification of Number and
the Licensing of Root Infinitives
Teun Hoekstra, Nina Hyams, and Misha Becker 293
English Reading Achievement and ASL Skills in Deaf Students
Robert Hoffmeister, Peter A. de Villiers,
Elizabeth Engen, and Deborah Topol 307
Relating Interlanguage to Codeswitching:
The Composite Matrix Language
Janice L. Jake and Carol Myers-Scotton 319
The Case of Subject and Object Omissions in French and German
Celia Jakubowicz, Natascha Mueller,
Beate Riemer, and Catherine Rigaut 331
Volume 2
The Acquisition of the "What's X Doing Y?" Construction
Christopher Johnson 343
The Sensitive Periods for the Acquisition of
L2 Lexico-Semantic and Syntactic Systems
Eun Joo Kim 354
On the Transfer of Morphological
Parameter Values in L2 Acquisition
Donna Lardiere 366
The "New Passive" in Icelandic
Joan Maling and Sigridur Sigurjonsdottir 378
Children's Acquisition of Reciprocal Sentences
with Active and Stative Predicates
Ayumi Matsuo 390
A Test of Assumptions of Some Recent Accounts
of Specific Language Impairment
Carol A. Miller and Laurence B. Leonard 402
Level-Ordering and Dual-Mechanisms
as Explanations of L2 Grammars
Victoria A. Murphy 410
The Role of Parental Input and Language Dominance
in Bilingual Children's Code-Mixing
Elena Nicoladis and Fred Genesee 422
Lexical Familiarity Effects on Children's
Weak Syllable Omissions
Diane Ohala and LouAnn Gerken 433
Word Truncation in French-Speaking Two Year Olds
Johanne Paradis, Sophie Petitclerc, and Fred Genesee 441
Truncation and Root Infinitives
in Second Language Acquisition of French
Philippe Prevost 453
The Default Case for Subjects in the Optional Infinitive Stage
Matthew Rispoli 465
Acquisition and Creolization of Condition C "Violations"
in Kadiweu and Portuguese
Filomena Sandalo and Peter Gordon 476
Learning a System of Mappings: The Acquisition of Color Terms
Catherine Sandhofer and Linda B. Smith 487
7.5-month-old Infants' Segmentation
of Multisyllabic Words in Fluent Speech
Lynn Santelmann, Derek Houston, and Peter Jusczyk 495
What Discontinuous Dependencies Reveal
about the Size of the Learner's Processing Window
Lynn Santelmann and Peter Jusczyk 506
The Longer-Term Affects of Corrective Input:
An Experimental Approach
Matthew Saxton, Bella Kulcsar,
Greer Marshall, and Mandeep Rupra 515
Object Scrambling, Object (-Clitic) Placement
and Nominal Specificity in Dutch Child Language
Jeannette Schaeffer 527
Object Placement and Early German Grammar
Manuela Schoenenberger, Zvi Penner,
and Juergen Weissenborn 539
Argument Structure in Nicaraugan Sign Language:
The Emergence of Grammatical Devices
Ann Senghas, Marie Coppola,
Elissa L. Newport, and Ted Supalla 550
Acquiring the Logic of Natural Language Negation:
Structured Objects and Dimensional Predicates
Dean Sharpe, Dan Purdy, and Elisabeth Christie 562
L2 Acquistion of the Null Telic
Morpheme -- A Psycholinguistic Investigation
Roumyana Slabakova 574
Agreement Morphology and the Acquisition
of Noun-Drop in Spanish
William Snyder and Ann Senghas 584
It's the Thought that Counts: The Influence
of Mental State Attribution on Young Children's
Inductions of Proper Noun Reference
Cristina Sorrentino 592
Phonological Constraints and Morphological Development
Joseph Paul Stemberger and Barbara Bernhardt 603
An Iterative Strategy for Learning Metrical Stress
in Optimality Theory
Bruce Tesar 615
Why Second Language Acquisition Theory Has
No Sense of Its Own History, Why We Should
Do Something About It, and What We Should Do
Margaret Thomas 627
Resumptive Strategies and L2A: A Minimalist Account
Ianthi Maria Tsimpli 639
American Infant Discrimination of Dutch and French Word Lists
Michael L. Tucker, Ann Marie Jusczyk,
and Peter W. Jusczyk 656
Is Language Needed for Constructing Sortal Concepts?
A Study with Nonhuman Primates
Claudia Uller, Fei Xu, Susan Carey, and Marc Hauser 665
Learning Telicity: Acquiring Argument Structure and
the Syntax-Semantics of Direct Objects in Dutch
Angeliek van Hout 678
Children's Comprehension of Viewpoint Aspect
Laura Wagner 689
L2 Psych Verbs, Zero Morphology and the T/SM Restriction
Lydia White, Silvina Montrul,
Dongdong Chen, and Joyce Bruhn-Garavito 695
On the Lexicalization of Causal Events
Phillip Wolff and Dedre Gentner 707
What is the Mechanism Underlying Infants' Construction
of Sortal Concepts Between 10 and 12 Months of Age?
Fei Xu 719
Lexical Patterns in the Expression of Motion Events
in a Self-Styled Gesture System
Ming-yu Zheng and Susan Goldin-Meadow 730