 | x + 807 pages (2-volume set) publication date: March 2000 ISBN 978-1-57473-052-4 paperback, $60.00 ISBN 978-1-57473-152-1 library binding, $125.00 |
Volume 1
Innately Constrained Learning: Blending Old
and New Approaches to Language Acquisition
Elissa L. Newport and Richard N. Aslin 1-21
Sense and Sense Ability in Child Language
Stephen Crain 22-44
Acquisition and Use of 'a' and 'the' in
English by Young Children
Ahmad Abu-Akel and Alison L. Bailey 45-57
Language Attrition: Why Are
Resumptive Pronouns So Susceptible?
Sharon Armon-Lotem 58-67
The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts:
Investigating the Object Scope Principle of Lexical Acquisition
Karen Arnold, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff,
Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek, George Hollich, Kevin Driscoll,
Camille Rocroi, and Elizabeth Hennon 68-79
Children Who Build Bridges
Sergey Avrutin and Peter Coopmans 80-91
The Cocktail Party Effect in Infants:
Following One's Mother's Voice
Brittan A. Barker and Rochelle S. Newman 92-103
The Acquisition of the English Copula
Misha Becker 104-115
Ça on fait pas! On The L2-Acquisition of French
by Two Young Children with Different Source Languages
Adriana Belletti and Cornelia Hamann 116-127
How Dutch Children's Root Infinitives Become Modal
Elma Blom and Frank Wijnen 128-139
Imperatives in Bilingual Child Icelandic-English
Ute Bohnacker 140-150
The Influence of Focusing Stress on Infants'
Recognition of Words in Fluent Speech
Heather Bortfeld and James Morgan 151-163
L2 Acquisition of Spanish DPs:
The Status of Grammatical Features
Joyce Bruhn de Garavito and Lydia White 164-175
Optional Bound Morphology in the
Development of Text Production
Dalia Cahana-Amitay and Dorit Ravid 176-184
Null and Overt Subjects in Early Child Korean
Sook Whan Cho 185-196
Learning to Learn Words: A Cross-Linguistic
Study of the Shape and Material Biases
Eliana Colunga and Linda B. Smith 197-207
Indexing Self-Other Relationships through Directives:
The Construction of Class, Social Roles, and Authority in
Indian and Mexican-American Caregiver-Child Interaction
Lisa Comparini and Sunil Bhatia 208-219
Phonological Effects on Article Omission in
the Acquisition of Italian
Paola Crisma and Elisabetta Tomasutti 220-231
How the Brain Copes with a Phantom Hemisphere
and Supports Language Development
Stella de Bode and Susan Curtiss 232-241
Structure Building and the Acquisition of Dislocations
in Child French
Cécile De Cat 242-252
Necessity in Grammatical Design and L2 Acquisition:
Quantifier and Tense in English-French Interlanguage
Laurent Dekydtspotter, Rex A. Sprouse,
and Alison Leininger 253-264
Reference to Protagonists' Mental States in the Written
Narratives of Deaf Children: The Contribution of
English Syntax and ASL Skills
Peter A. de Villiers, Jessica Church, Roberta Giordano,
Melissa Whalen, and Robert Hoffmeister 265-275
From Head to Adjunct: Evidence from the Acquisition
of German Ditransitive Verbs
Heiner Drenhaus 276-285
On the Acquisition of an Indefinite Determiner:
Evidence for Unselective Binding
Claire Foley, Barbara Lust, David Battin,
Annie Koehne, and Katherine White 286-298
Children's Knowledge of the Grammar
of Restrictive Relative Clauses
Cathy Fragman and Helen Goodluck 299-307
Some Notes on the Null Object Phenomenon in Child Spanish
Hanako Fujino and Tetsuya Sano 308-318
Aspect Parameter in the Guise of
Optional Infinitives in Child L2 English
Elena Gavruseva 319-330
Are Verbs Hard to Understand? Continuity vs.
Discontinuity in Early Lexical Development
Beverly A. Goldfield 331-342
The Resilience of Ergative Structure in
Language Created by Children and by Adults
Susan Goldin-Meadow, Elif Yalabik,
and Lisa Gershkff-Stowe 343-353
Variation and Continuity in Language Acquisition:
An Analysis of Early Child German and French
William Earl Griffin 354-366
Acquisition of Disjunction in Conditional Sentences
Andrea Gualmini, Stephen Crain,
and Luisa Meroni 367-378
Missing Case Inflection: Implications
for Second Language Acquisition
Ayse Gürel 379-390
Will Training on Language Influence
Theory of Mind Development?
Courtney Melinda Hale and Helen Tager-Flusberg 391-398
Volume 2
Learning Proper Names and Count Nouns:
Evidence from Toddlers
D. Geoffrey Hall and Sharon C. Lee 399-408
Of Musical Hand Chairs and Linguistic Swing
Kazuko Hiramatsu, William Snyder, Thomas Roeper,
Stephanie Storrs, and Matthew Saccoman 409-417
The Origins of Syntactic Knowledge: Recognition
of Determiners in One-Year-Old German Children
Barbara Höhle and Jürgen Weissenborn 418-429
Temporal Dependencies: Complement and
Relative Clauses Compared
Bart Hollebrandse 430-437
The Interaction between Input and Economy:
Acquiring Optionality in French Wh-Questions
Aafke Hulk and Shalom Zuckerman 438-449
Phonologically Weak Items in
Abnormal Acquisition of French
Celia Jakubowicz, Laurice Tuller,
and Catherine Rigaut 450-461
When Young Children Name Artifacts by Their Functions:
Effects of the Plausibility of Structure/Function Relations
Deborah G. Kemler Nelson and Elizabeth Blair 462-473
A Longitudinal Study of Lexical and Prosodic Differentiation
by a Simultaneous French/English Bilingual Child (1;5 - 2;3)
Christopher L. LaBelle 474-485
Characteristics of Maternal Speech in Korean:
Do Korean and Japanese Maternal Speech Show Similar Characteristics?
Soyoung Lee and Mineharu Nakayama 486-497
Morphology in Children with Williams Syndrome:
Evidence from Hebrew
Yonata Levy and Shula Hermon 498-509
Functional Wh and Language Acquisition: Weak Crossover and
Wh/Quantifier Asymmetries in Child Language
John D. Lewis 510-521
Learning Phonemes without Minimal Pairs
Jessica Maye and LouAnn Gerken 522-533
Acquiring Semantic Properties of Preterite
and Imperfect Tenses in L2 Spanish
Silvina Montrul and Roumyana Slabakova 534-545
Crosslinguistic Influence in Bilingual Children:
Object Omissions and Root Infinitives
Natascha Müller and Aafke Hulk 546-557
Climb up vs. Ascend Climbing: Lexicalization Choices in
Expressing Motion Events with Manner and Path Components
Seyda Ozcaliskan and Dan I. Slobin 558-570
Early Communication: Beyond Speech-Act Theory
Anna Papafragou 571-582
Felicity, Relevance, and Acquisition of
the Grammar of Every and Only
William Philip and Emily Lynch 583-596
Prosodic Constraints and the Learner's Environment:
A Corpus Study
Brian Roark and Katherine Demuth 597-608
Imagining Articles: What a and the Can
Tell Us about the Emergence of DP
Robin J. Schafer and Jill de Villiers 609-620
The Role of the Expletive in the
Acquisition of a Discourse Anaphor
Robin J. Schafer and Thomas Roeper 621-632
Within-Language Dissociations in Mental Retardation:
Williams-Beuren and Down Syndrome
Chris Schaner-Wolles 633-644
The Lost Word: Language Attrition among Children
Elena Schmitt 645-656
Deviant Verb Placement and the Split-CP Hypothesis
Manuela Schönenberger 657-668
An Elicitation Study of Young English Children's
Knowledge of Tense: Semantic and Syntactic
Properties of Optional Infinitives
Carson T. Schütze and Kenneth Wexler 669-683
Incremental Referentially-Based Language Processing
in Children: Evidence from Eye Monitoring
Julie Sedivy, Katherine Demuth,
Gitana Chunyo, and Shelby Freedman 684-695
The Development of Early Spatial Morphology
in Nicaraguan Sign Language
Ann Senghas 696-707
Evidence for Use of Phrasal Packaging
by English-Learning 9-Month-Olds
Melanie Soderstrom, Peter Jusczyk,
and Deborah Kemler Nelson 708-718
Differential Effects of Attrition in the L1 Syntax
of Near-Native L2 Speakers
Antonella Sorace 719-725
Auxiliary Verb Learning and 18-Month-Olds' Acquisition
of Morphological Relationships
Ruth Tincoff, Lynn Santelmann, and Peter Jusczyk 726-737
Lack of Clitic-Pronoun Distinctions in the Acquisition
of Principle B in Child Greek
Spyridoula Varlokosta 738-748
Passives and Implicit Arguments in Child Language
Maaike Verrips 749-760
Getting the Point Across: Content and Dynamics in Japanese
and American Mothers' Storytelling to Preschool Children
Tomoko Wakabayashi and Anne Fernald 761-772
Distinguishing Count Nouns from Adjectives: Evidence from
14-Month-Olds' Novelty-Preference and Word-Extension
Sandra R. Waxman and Amy Booth 773-784
How Languages Influence Children's
Categorization of Specific Objects
Hanako Yoshida and Linda B. Smith 785-796
Is Thematic-Verb Raising Inevitable in
the Acquisition of a Nonnative Language?
Boping Yuan 797-807