 | x + 796 pages (2-volume set) publication date: March 1998 ISBN 978-1-57473-032-6 paperback, $50.00 ISBN 978-1-57473-132-3 library binding, $96.00 |
Volume 1
Is Atypical Development Necessarily a Window
on Normal Language Development?
Annette Karmiloff-Smith 1
Remarks on Early Null Subjects
Luigi Rizzi 14
SEMANTICS or Syntax for Negative Islands in Language Acquisition
Lamya Abdulkarim and Tom Roeper 39
Overt Copulas in African American English Speaking Children
Elena Benedicto, Lamya Abdulkarim,
Debra Garrett, Valerie Johnson and Harry N. Seymour 50
Resumptive Pronoun Strategies in English-Speaking Children
Judy B. Bernstein, Dana McDaniel and Cecile McKee 58
Is There Canonical Word Order Transfer in L2 Acquisition?
Jose Camacho 69
The Acquisition of Chinese First Person References
Hsiao-chih Chang 81
On the Nature of Left-Branch Violations in Child English
Deborah Chen, Maki Yamane and William Snyder 91
"Some" and "Or": A Study on the Emergence of Logical Form
Gennaro Chierchia, Stephen Crain,
Maria Teresa Guasti and Rosalind Thornton 97
The Acquisition of Chinese Dative Constructions
Ting Ting Rachel Chung and Peter Gordon 109
Linguistic Outcomes for Hemispherectomized Children
Susan Curtiss and Stella de Bode 121
Interhemispheric Language Transfer and Functional Plasticity
Stella de Bode 134
Evidence of Full UG Access in L2 Acquisition from the Interpretive
Interface: Quantification at a Distance in English-French Interlanguage
Laurent Dekydtspotter, Rex A. Sprouse and Rachel Thyre 141
Acquisition of the Quantificational Properties of Mental Predicates
Jill de Villiers, Laramie Curran,
Heather DeMunn and William Philip 153
Root and Manner Feature Faithfulness in Acquisition
Daniel A. Dinnsen and Jessica A. Barlow 165
Determining L2 Knowledge of Spanish Clitics On-line and Off-line
Nigel Duffield, Silvina Montrul,
Joyce Bruhn de Garavito and Lydia White 177
OI-Like Effects in Adult L2 Acquisition
Lynn Eubank and Maria-Luise Beck 189
Stagnation in Prosodic Development of Language-Disordered Children
Paula Fikkert and Zvi Penner 201
The Epistemic Content of Evidentiality: How Children
Use Grammar to Evaluate the Reliability of Information
Stanka Fitneva and Frank Keil 213
The Genetic Basis for the Development of Tense:
A Preliminary Report on a Twin Study
Jennifer Ganger, Kenneth Wexler and Melanie Soderstrom 224
Left-Branch Violations in Child L2 English
Lena Gavruseva 235
The Role of a Communication Partner
in the Creation of a Gestural Language System
Lisa Gershkoff-Stowe and Susan Goldin-Meadow 246
Lexical Properties in Implementation of Sound Change
Judith A. Gierut and Michele L. Morrisette 257
On the Status of Final Consonants in Early Child Language
Heather Goad 269
Why Nouns Before Verbs? The View from Pragmatics
Beverly A. Goldfield 281
Children's Interpretation of Adjunct PRO: New Evidence
Helen Goodluck 293
The Independence of Language and Number
John Grinstead, Jeff MacSwan, Susan Curtiss and Rochel Gelman 303
Language Impairment and the Realization of Finiteness
Gisela Hakansson 314
Minimally Raising the Verb Issue
Julia Herschensohn 325
Children Who Judge Ungrammatical What They Produce
Kazuko Hiramatsu and Diane Lillo-Martin 337
Sensitivity to Closed-Class Elements in Preverbal Children
Barbara Hoehle and Juergen Weissenborn 348
Agreement and the Finiteness of V2: Evidence from Child Language
Teun Hoekstra and Nina Hyams 360
On the Relation between the Acquisition
of Theory of Mind and Sequence of Tense
Bart Hollebrandse 374
Talker-Specificity and Persistence of Infants' Word Representations
Derek Houston, Peter W. Jusczyk and Jennifer Tager 385
Volume 2
On the Role of Direct Objects and Particles
in Learning Telicity in Dutch and English
Angeliek van Hout 397
Children's Assimilatory Patterns and L1 Attrition
Dorit Kaufman 409
Phonological Cohesion in Syllable Structure
Becky Kennedy 421
Complex Verb Constructions in Child Korean:
Overt Markers of Covert Functional Structure
Meesook Kim and Colin Phillips 430
Preschoolers' Acquisition of Novel Adjectives
and the Role of Basic-Level Kind
Raquel Stote Klibanoff and Sandra R. Waxman 442
Object or Action? Sentence Prosody Helps Fifteen-Month-Olds Decide
Phyllis L. Koenig 454
Getting Rid of Root Infinitives
Ingeborg Lasser 465
Transfer between Interlanguages
Ingrid Yan-kit Leung 477
Constraints on the Syntactic Bootstrapping Procedure for Verb Learning
Jeffrey Lidz 488
Qualitative and Quantitative Differences in
the Discrimination of Second Language Speech Sounds
John Matthews and Cynthia Brown 499
Rigidity Effects and the Strong/Weak Wh-Features in SLA
Yoichi Miyamoto and Yasuko Takata 511
Acquisition of the Functional Structure of the Adjective Phrase
Deanna Moore and Thomas Roeper 523
Not Any Child Can Deal with Some
Julien Musolino 535
Words and Gestures: The Role of Sentence Context
in Infants' Mapping of Novel Symbols to Object Categories
Laura L. Namy and Sandra R. Waxman 546
Identifying the Language Spoken by 26-Month-Old Monolingual-
and Bilingual-Learning Babies in a No-Context Situation
Ana M. Navarro, Barbara Z. Pearson,
Alan Cobo-Lewis and D. Kimbrough Oller 557
Newborns' Sensitivity to Pitch Contours
Thierry Nazzi and Josiane Bertoncini 569
The Role of Translation Equivalents
in a Bilingual Family's Code-Mixing
Elena Nicoladis and Giovanni Secco 576
Support for the Independent Development Hypothesis: Evidence
from a Case Study of a Bilingual Russian- and English-Speaking Child
Michael O'Neill 586
Phonological Constraints and Word Truncation
in Early Language Acquisition
Mitsuhiko Ota 598
Modality and Metarepresentation
Anna Papafragou 610
Supralexical and Lexical Attrition of Greek in Greek-English Bilinguals
Linda A. Pelc 621
The Emergence of Discourse/Syntax-Interface Problems
in Impaired Grammar: 'Reference Time' Disorders in German
Zvi Penner and Cornelia Hamann 626
The L2 Acquisition of Definite Determiners: From Null to Overt
Liliana Sanchez and Maria Jose Gimenez 640
The Acquisition of Definite Determiners in Child Swedish:
Metrical and Discourse Influences on Functional Morphology
Lynn Santelmann 651
18-Month-Olds' Sensitivity to Relationships between Morphemes
Lynn Santelmann and Peter Jusczyk 663
Big Mice, Big Animals, Big Problems:
The Acquisition of Adjective Interpretation Rules
Dean Sharpe, Isabel Fonte and Elisabeth Christe 675
Toddling into Language: Precocious Language Development
in Motor-Impaired Children with Spinal Muscular Atrophy
Jechil S. Sieratzki and Bencie Woll 684
How Can You Eat a Cake and Have It Too?
L2 Acquisition of English Telicity
Roumyana Slabakova 695
Children's Interpretation of Gaps with Three-Argument Verbs
Ron Smyth and Heather Flowers 707
Word Order, Finiteness, and Negation in Early Child Russian
William Snyder and Eva Bar-Shalom 717
In Defense of Full Transfer in German-English and
French-English Interlanguage: Comparative L2 Acquisition Research
Rex A. Sprouse and Bonnie D. Schwartz 726
Resumptives and Wh-Movement in the Acquisition
of Relative Clauses in Modern Greek and Hebrew
Spyridoula Varlokosta and Sharon Armon-Lotem 737
Tags Are Tricky, Aren't They?
The Acquisition of Tag Questions in Children with Language Impairment
Jill Weckerly, Rudy Contreras, Beverly Wulfeck,
Ursula Bellugi and Judy Reilly 747
Children's Sensitivity to Word-Order Violations in German:
Evidence for Very Early Parameter-Setting
Juergen Weissenborn, Barbara Hoehle,
Dorothea Kiefer and Damir Cavar 756
Word Meaning in Infants' First Words:
Implications for a Theory of Lexical Ontology
Chris Westbury and Elena Nicoladis 768
Learning Verb Meaning via Adverbial Modification:
Change-of-State Verbs in German and the Adverb wieder ('again')
Angelika Wittek 779
Distinct Labels Provide Pointers to Distinct
Sortals for 9-Month-Old Infants
Fei Xu 791