 | x + 775 pages (2-volume set) publication date: March 1999 ISBN 978-1-57473-042-5 paperback, $60.00 ISBN 978-1-57473-142-2 library binding, $125.00 |
Volume 1
Word Segmentation Abilities and
Their Contribution to Language Acquisition
Peter Jusczyk 1-19
The Role of Classifiers in Predicting
English Literacy among Deaf Adults
Michelle Anthony 20-31
The Role of the Clitic-Full Pronoun Distinction
in the Acquisition of Pronominal Coreference
Sergio Baauw 32-43
An Argument for Adjuncts:
Evidence from a Phonologically Disordered System
Jessica A. Barlow 44-55
On the Relationship between Root Infinitives
and Imperatives in Early Child Russian
Eva Bar-Shalom and William Snyder 56-67
Abstract Features in L2 Competence: Be-Prefixation in German
Maria-Luise Beck and Lynn Eubank 68-79
Syntactic and Metric Constraints
on Children's Function Morphemes
Misha Becker 80-92
Acquisition of Binding in Arabic
Naomi Bolotin 93-102
Disentangling Multiple Sources
of Stress in Infant-Directed Speech
Heather Bortfeld and James Morgan 103-111
Adult SLA of Se Constructions in Spanish:
Evidence against Pattern Learning
Joyce L.S. Bruhn de Garavito 112-119
Aspect and Its Temporal Interpretation
during the Optional Infinitive Stage in Russian
Dina Brun, Sergey Avrutin, and Maria Babyonyshev 120-131
Perspectives on Pragmatic Socialization
Judith Becker Bryant 132-137
Bilingual Children's Repairs of Communication Breakdowns
Liane Comeau, Morton J. Mendelson, and Fred Genesee 138-149
Neurobiological Mechanisms of Language Acquisition
in Sturge Weber Syndrome
Stella de Bode and Susan Curtiss 150-161
Semantics, Pragmatics and Second Language Acquisition:
The Case of Combien Extractions
Laurent Dekydtspotter, Rex A. Sprouse,
Kimberly A. Swanson, and Rachel Thyre 162-171
Variation and Emerging Faithfulness
in Phonological Acquisition
Daniel A. Dinnsen and Laura W. McGarrity 172-183
Weak Quantification, Plausible Dissent, and the
Development of Children's Pragmatic Competence
Kenneth F. Drozd and Erik van Loosbroek 184-195
Learning and the Representation of Complex Onsets
Judith A. Gierut and Annette Hust Champion 196-203
Cognitive Prerequisites for Modal Verb Acquisition
Joanna Gonsalves and Rachel Joffe Falmagne 204-215
When an Island Is Not an Island:
Long-Distance Questions in Singapore Malay
Gabriella Hermon and Norhaida Aman 216-227
The Second Language Acquisition
of Spanish Word Order for Unaccusative Verbs
Tammy Jandrey Hertel and Ana Teresa Perez-Leroux 228-239
The Eventivity Constraint and Modal Reference Effects
in Root Infinitives
Teun Hoekstra and Nina Hyams 240-252
Past Time Reference in Chinese Children's Speech
Chiung-chih Huang 253-264
Creolization: Could Adults Really Have Done It All?
Carla L. Hudson and Elissa L. Newport 265-276
Word Learning without Aid from Syntax: How Do
Japanese Children Learn Proper Nouns and Common Nouns?
Mutsumi Imai and Etsuko Haryu 277-288
Inflection and Past Tense Morphology in French SLI
Celia Jakubowicz, Lea Nash, and Marlies van der Velde 289-300
Age Differences in Second Language Acquisition:
The Dominant Language Switch and Maintenance Hypothesis
Gisela Jia and Doris Aaronson 301-312
Non-Finite Root Clauses in Swedish Child Language
Gunlog Josefsson 313-324
A Look at Interlanguage Development: The Case of Acquiring
Topic-Prominence by English L2 Learners of Korean
Euen Hyuk (Sarah) Jung 325-336
Cross-Linguistic Differences
in Children's Syntax for Locative Verbs
Meesook Kim, Barbara Landau, and Colin Phillips 337-348
Optionality in English Non-Native Grammars:
Differences between L1 and L2 Acquisition
Elaine C. Klein and Monica Casco 349-360
Syntactic Cues to Word Meaning:
Initial Expectations and the Development of Flexibility
Raquel Stote Klibanoff and Sandra Waxman 361-372
Volume 2
The Role of L1 and of Teaching in the Acquisition
of English Sounds by Francophones
Darlene LaCharite and Philippe Prevost 373-385
Suppletive Agreement in Second Language Acquisition
Donna Lardiere 386-396
Gender Assignment to German Nonsense Nouns: What Does
the Native Speaker Know That the Non-Native Speaker Doesn't?
Glenn S. Levine 397-406
Prosodic Constraints on the Emergence
of Grammatical Morphemes: Crosslinguistic
Evidence from Germanic and Romance Languages
Conxita Lleo and Katherine Demuth 407-418
Incomplete L1 Acquisition: The Morphosyntax of Kaspar Hauser
Mark L. Louden 419-430
The Acquisition of Sequence of Tense in Japanese
Ayumi Matsuo and Bart Hollebrandse 431-442
Case-Dropping and Unaccusatives in Japanese Acquisition
Edson T. Miyamoto, Kenneth Wexler,
Takako Aikawa, and Shigeru Miyagawa 443-452
Compounds and Complex Predicates:
Japanese Evidence for a "Global" Parameter
Nobohiro Miyoshi 453-461
The L2 Acquisition of Agentive Verbs
of Directed Motion in English
Silvina Montrul 462-473
Comparatives and Superlatives: Lexical before Functional
Deanna Moore 474-481
Object Omissions in Bilingual Children:
Evidence for Crosslinguistic Influence
Natascha Mueller, Aafke Hulk, and Celia Jakubowicz 482-494
What Every Child Doesn't Know
Julien Musolino 495-506
The Acquisition of Formal and Informal Language
by Japanese Preschool Children
Keiko Nakamura 507-518
Five-Month-Old Infants' Discrimination of Languages
Thierry Nazzi and Peter W. Jusczyk 519-528
Innateness and the Acquisition
of Grammatical Aspect via Lexical Aspect
Mari Broman Olsen and Amy Weinberg 529-540
Learning How to Search For the Frog: Expression
of Manner of Motion in English, Spanish, and Turkish
Seyda Ozcaliskan and Dan I. Slobin 541-552
A Feature Checking Approach to Null Arguments in SLA
Hyeson Park 553-564
Narrative Development without Submersion in a Native Language
Sarah B. van Deusen Phillips,
Susan Goldin-Meadow, and Peggy Miller 565-574
Finiteness and Variability in SLA:
More Evidence for Missing Surface Inflection
Philippe Prevost and Lydia White 575-586
Developmental Observations on the Auxiliary Do
and the Optional Infinitive Hypothesis
Tetsuya Sano 587-598
Definiteness and Children's Interpretation
of the Locative Anaphor There
Robin J. Schafer 599-610
The Acquisition of Verb Placement in Swiss German
Manuela Schoenenberger 611-622
Two for One: Learning to Count Visitors Differently from Persons
Dean Sharpe 623-629
Root Infinitives and Null Subjects in Early Icelandic
Sigridur Sigurjonsdottir 630-641
The Complex-Predicate / N-N Compounding Connection
in L2 Acquisition
Roumyana Slabakova 642-653
The Successes and Failures of Word-to-World Mapping
Jesse Snedeker, Lila Gleitman, and Michael Brent 654-665
Initial States, End-States,
and Residual Optionality in L2 Acquisition
Antonella Sorace 666-674
Children's Use of Syntactic, Pragmatic, and
Semantic Information in Learning Proper Names
Cristina M. Sorrentino 675-686
Stages in the Development of Grammatical Space
Esthela Trevino and Antoinette Hawayek 687-696
Evidence for Early Convergence from
Child Catalan and Child Russian Imperatives
Veronique van Gelderen, John Grinstead, and Teun Hoekstra 697-707
Acquiring Tense in Form and Meaning
Laura Wagner 708-719
The Acquisition of Wh-Questions: Wh-Drop in Child Swedish,
Dutch, German, English, French, Spanish and Japanese
Kyoko Yamakoshi 720-731
Subject-Object Asymmetries and
Children's Left Branch Violations
Maki Yamane, Deborah Chen Pichler, and William Snyder 732-740
The Acquisition of Nouns and Verbs in Young Japanese
Children: Why Do Verbal Nouns Emerge Early?
Yoshie Yamashita 741-752
Preliterate Children's Syllabification of Intervocalic Consonants
Tania S. Zamuner and Diane K. Ohala 753-763
Targeting Complex Structure in French Questions
Bernadette Plunkett 764-775