BUCLD 19 Table of Contents

Volume One

Children -- Architects or Brickies?
     Andrew Radford     1

Questioning Minds and Answering Machines
     Jill de Villiers     20

The Acquisition of Welsh Clause Structure
     Michelle Aldridge, Robert D. Borsley, and Susan Clack     37

Tense Doubling in Early Grammars
     Joe Allen     48

Acquiring German Noun Plurals
     Susanne Bartke, Gary F. Marcus, and Harald Clahsen     60

Picking up Particles
     Hans Bennis, Marcel den Dikken, Peter Jordens, 
     Susan Powers, and Jurgen Weissenborn     70

Word-formation as Evidence
     Ruth A. Berman     82

Semantics and the Bootstrapping Problem
     Paul Bloom     96

The Acquisition of Collective Nouns
     Paul Bloom, Deborah Kelemen, 
     Amy Fountain, and Ellen Courtney     107

A Crosslinguistic Study of the Age Factor 
in Second Language Acquisition
     Naomi Bolotin     118

Grammatical Mapping from UG to Language Specific Grammars: 
Variation in the Acquisiton of German, Dutch and Swedish
     Katharina Boser, Lynn Santelmann, 
     Isabella Barbier, and Barbara Lust     130

Constrained Productivity in the Acquistion of NP-type Nouns
     T. Burns and N. Soja     143

Patterns of Noun Phrase Expression in Hands-On 
Instructional Conversations in Science
     Rebecca Burns-Hoffman, Okhee Lee, and Sandra H. Fradd     154

Functional Categories and Objective Case Assignment 
in the Early Grammars of Bambara
     Oumarou Camara and Usha Lakshmanan     166

Dynamic Acquisition
     Laura Conway and Stephen Crain     180

Lexical Representation of Greek Compounds: Evidence from 
Greek Developmentally Language Impaired Individuals
     Jenny Dalalakis and Myrna Gopnik     192

An Auditory Processing Deficit as a Possible Source of SLI 
     Christiane Fellbaum, Steven Miller, 
     Susan Curtiss, and Paula Tallal     204

The Emergence of Nominative Case Assignment in 
Child Catalan and Spanish
     John Grinstead     216

Negation in Children's Questions: The Case of English
     Maria Teresa Guasti, Rosalind Thornton, and Kenneth Wexler     228

Null Arguments in German Child Language
     Cornelia Hamann     240

Distinguishing Logical from Developmental Predictions in the Subset 
Principle Debate
     Robert Hamilton     255

Integrating Auditory and Visual Cues in Speech Perception: Perspectives 
on the Role of Compellingness from Cross-Language Studies
     Debra M. Hardison     267

Differences Between Name Recognition and Name Retrieval Abilities 
in Relationship to Reading Performance
     Charles Winthrop Haynes     279

L2 Acquisition of English Unaccusative Constructions
     Makiko Hirakawa     291

The Independence of Communication and Grammar in Development
     Erika Hoff-Ginsberg     303

A Cross-Channel Description of Character Reference in Oral Narratives
     Yvette D. Hyter and Aquiles Iglesias     313

Nouns and Verbs in Turkish Child Directed Speech
     Aylin Kuntay and Dan I. Slobin     323

On the L2 Acquisition of Deverbal Compounds: Evidence for Agreement
     Donna Lardiere and Bonnie D. Schwartz     335

Morphology in Children with Congenital Brain Deficits -- Evidence 
from Children Learning Hebrew
     Yonata Levy     348

Volume Two

Acquisition of Oral Narrative Skills 
by Foreign Language Learners of Japanese
     Yoshimi Maeno     359

A Developmental Model of the Sensorimotor Foundations of Phonology
     Kevin L. Markey, Lise Menn, and Michael C. Mozer     367

Case-Marking in Conjoined NPs and Binding 
Conditions in Young Children's Grammar
     Kazumi Matsuoka     379

Segmental Deficits in Aphasia: The Regression 
Hypothesis in Light of Current Phonological Theory
     John S. Matthews     391

From Homesign to ASL: Identifying the Influences of a Self-Generated 
Childhood Gesture System Upon Language Proficiency in Adulthood
     Jill P. Morford, Jenny L. Singleton, and Susan Goldin-Meadow  403

Do Infants Use Stress as a Cue in Segmenting Fluent Speech?
     Mary R. Newsome and Peter W. Jusczyk     415

Assessment of Phonetic Differentiation in Bilingual-learning Infants
     Barbara Zurer Pearson, Ana Navarro, and
     Virginia Mueller Gathercole     427

The Acquisition of Pronouns in Dutch and English: 
The Case for Continuity
     Susan M. Powers     439

Extended Optional Infinitive (EOI) Account 
of Specific Language Impairment
     Mabel L. Rice and Kenneth Wexler     451

Using a Recurrent Connectionist Network to Compare 
Bilingual and Second Language Learning
     Oliver Rickard and Tom Scutt     463

Morphological Acquistion and SLI: 
Evidence from Children with Expressive Language Delay
     Julie Roberts and Leslie Rescorla     475

On German Verb Syntax under Age 2
     Bernhard Rohrbacher and Anne Vainikka     487

Topicalization, CP and Licensing in the Acquisition of Swedish
     Lynn Santelmann     499

The Interdependence Between Linguistic and 
Cognitive Performance Among Bilingual Preschoolers 
with Differing Home Language Environments
     Rolando L. Santiago     511

On the Acquisition of Scrambling in Dutch
     Jeannette Schaeffer     521

EEG, Brain and Language Development: A Case Study
     A. Rene Schmauder and Martha Ann Bell     533

The Development of Nicaraguan Sign Language 
via the Language Acquisition Process     
     Ann Senghas     543

Some Evidence of Sensitivity to Prosody and 
Word Order in Ten-Month-Olds
     Michele Shady, LouAnn Gerken, and Peter W. Jusczyk     553

Is the Right Hemisphere of the Brain Functionally Specialized to 
Process Prosodic Information from Birth?
     Valerie L. Shafer and David W. Shucard     563

Tense-aspect Marking by L2 Learners of Japanese
     Yasuhiro Shirai     575

Robust Lexical Acquisition Despite Extremely Noisy Input
     Jeffrey Mark Siskind     587

An Investigation of Children with Developmental Language 
Impairment's Ability to Use Everyday Knowledge in Comprehension
     Elizabeth Skarakis-Doyle and Siobhan Wootton     599

The Syntactic Representation of Degree and Number 
in Children's English: Evidence for Delayed Parametric Learning
     William Snyder and Dolon Das     611

The Development of Relative Clauses in Serbo-Croatian
     Danijela (Kudra) Stojanovic and Helen Goodluck     618

The Acquisition of Datives, Particles, and Related Constructions:
Evidence for a Parametric Account
     Karin Stromswold and William Snyder     621

Language Contact and Differentation in Child Bilingualism: 
A Syntactic Analysis
     Almeida Jacqueline Toribio and Barbara Louise Brown     629

Brain Maturation and Language Acquisition: 
A Theoretical Model and Preliminary Investigation
     Jennie Wakefield and M. Jeanne Wilcox     643

Semantic Structure Theory and L2 Learning 
of English Adjectival Participles
     Wang Chuming     655

Characteristics of Word Learners at 12 and 30 Months: Early 
Emergence and Modification of the Noun-Category Linkage
     Sandra R. Waxman     667

Do Children's First Object Kind Names Map onto 
Adult-like Conceptual Representations?
     Fei Xu and Susan Carey     679

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