BUCLD 20 Table of Contents

Volume One

The Tale of the Ugly Duckling 
(or the Coming of Age of Second Language Acquisition Research)
     Lydia White     1

An Examination of the Factors Underlying the Facilitative
Effect of Word Phrases on Object Categorization in 
Nine-Month-Old Infants
     Marie T. Balaban and Sandra R. Waxman     18

Perspective and Agency in the Construal of Narrative Events
     Michael Bamberg     30

The Development of On-glides in American English
     Jessica A. Barlow     40 

Light Verbs in Code-switched Utterances:
Derivational Economy in I-Language or 
Incongruence in Production?
     Tej K. Bhatia and William C. Ritchie     52

Limited Sentence Generation Accounts for 
Early Subject Omissions
     Carole T. Boster     63

Root Infinitives in Italian SLI Children
     Piero Bottari, Paola Cipriani 
     and Anna Maria Chilosi     75

The Locative Alternation: 
Accounting for Its Acquisition without 
Reference to Innate Linking Rules
     Ursula Brinkmann     87

Physical Individuation as a Prerequisite for 
Children's Symmetrical Readings
     Ursula Brinkmann, Kenneth F. Drozd and Irene Kramer     99

Phonological Parameter Setting with the 
Triggering Learning Algorithm
     Kevin Broihier     111

Verb Movement and Clitic Placement in 
French and Spanish as a Second Language
     Joyce Bruhn-Garavito and Silvina A. Montrul     123

Hindi-speaking Caregivers' Input: Towards an Integration of 
Typological and Language Socialization Approaches
     Nancy Budwig and Nandita Chaudhary     135

Syntax, Semantics, and NP-type Nouns
     Tracey C. Burns and Nancy N. Soja     146

³De mi padre, su padre²: The Syntax of Word Order Transfer and 
Person Agreement in Andean L2 Spanish
     Jose Camacho and Liliana Sanchez     155

Infants' Use of Rhythmic Cues in Word-level Segmentation
     Jane B. Childers and Catharine H. Echols     167 

Quantifier Interpretation Errors as 
Errors of Distributive Scope
     Kenneth F. Drozd     177

Where's the Mature Language?  Where's the Native Language?
     Lynn Eubank and Sabine Grace     189

The Acquisition of Tense and Temporal Reference
     Cheryl Fantuzzi     201

Language and Theory of Mind in Oral Deaf Children
     Elaine Gale, Peter de Villiers, 
     Jill de Villiers and Jenny Pyers     213

The Emergence of Extended Phrase 
Structure in Child L2 Acquisition
     Lena Gavruseva and Donna Lardiere     225

Child Phonology in Optimality Theory:
Ranking Markedness and Faithfulness Constraints
     Amalia E. Gnanadesikan     237

Why Does Vocabulary Spurt?
     Beverly A. Goldfield and J. Steven Resnick     249

Controlled PRO and the Acquisition of Greek
     Helen Goodluck and Arhonto Terzi     261

Come it Closer: Causitive Errors in Child Speech
     Jess Gropen, Janita Blaskovich and Gale DeDe     272

Null Aux and the Acquisition of Residual V2
     Maria Teresa Guasti and Luigi Rizzi     284

The Acquisition of Irish and the Internal 
Structure of VP in Early Child Grammars
     Eithne Guilfoyle     296

A Relevance-Theoretic Approach to Older 
Children's Use of Discourse Markers
     Marie E. Helt and Susan H. Foster-Cohen     308

Functional Categories in Child L2 Acquisition of Irish
     Alison Henry and Denise Tangney     318

Syntactic Bootstrapping by Children with SLI:
Implications for a Theory of Specific Language Impairment
     Erika Hoff-Ginsberg, Donna J. Kelly and JoAnn Buhr     328

The Pragmatics of Self-Reference in the First Years of Life
     Alison Imbens-Bailey and Barbara Alexander Pan     340

A Diary Study on the Acquisition of Middle French: 
A Preliminary Report on the Early Language 
Acquistion of Louis XIII
     David Ingram and Marie-Therese Le Normand     352

They Be Taggin', Don't They?: The Acquisition of Invariant Be
     Janice Jackson, Eliane Ramos, Fred Hall, D'Jaris Coles, 
     Harry Seymour, Mike Dickey, Kimberly Broderick 
     and Bart Hollebrandse     364

On the Acquisition of the Pronominal System in French and 
German
     Celia Jakubowicz, Natascha Muller, Ok-Kyung Kang, 
     Beate Riemer and Catherine Rigaut     374

The Shape of Early Words: A Prosodic Developmental Analysis
     Jacqueline S. Johnson and Joanna Salidis     386 

On the Acquisition of Word Order in Nominals
     Kyle Johnson, Sarah Bateman, Deanna Moore,
     Tom Roeper and Jill de Villiers     397

Parameters in the Lexicon, Language Variation, 
and Language Development
     Alan Juffs     407

Acquisition of Stress: An Investigation of Rhythmic Processes 
in English-Speaking Children's Multi-Syllabic Word Productions
     M. Kehoe and C. Stoel-Gammon     419

The Case of the Missing Particle: Objective Case Assignment and 
Scrambling in the Early Grammar of Japanese
     Usha Lakshmanan and Mami Ozeki     431

Volume Two

Object Naming and Category Boundaries
     Barbara Landau and Elizabeth Shipley     443

Second Language Acquisition of English Reflexives:
Is There Hope Beyond Transfer?
     Dawn MacLaughlin     453

Narrative Competency Outcomes of Specific Expressive 
Language Impairment at Ages Six, Seven, and Eight
     Joan E. Manhardt, Inge M. Hansen 
     and Leslie A. Rescorla     465

Children's Oblique Relatives
     Dana McDaniel and Cecile McKee     472

Multiple Level Naming Abilities of 
Children with Word-finding Deficits
     Karla K. McGregor and Sandra R. Waxman     483

L2 Rigidity: The Scope Principle in Adult L2 Grammar
     Yoichi Miyamoto and Maki Yamane     494

The Second Language Acquisition of Dative Case:
From Absolute L1 Influence to Optionality
     Silvina A. Montrul     506

Bilingual Communication Strategies and Language Dominance
     Elena Nicoladis and Fred Genesee     518

Phonological Differentiation in a Bilingual Child: 
Hildegaard Revisited
     Johanne Paradis     528

Truncation without Templates in Child Phonology
     Joe Pater and Johanne Paradis     540

Learning "Home": The Acquisition of Inherent 
Binding and Economy of Representation
     Ana Perez-Leroux and Thomas Roeper     552

The Event Quantificational Account of Symmetrical 
Interpretation and a Denial of Implausible Infelicity
     William Philip     564

The Double Dutch Delay of Principle B Effect
     William Philip and Peter Coopmans     576

Root Infinitives are Finite
     Colin Phillips     588

Quantification, Arbitrariness of Structure, 
and the Count-Mass Noun Distinction
     Sandeep Prasada     600

Tense Over Time: The Persistence of Optional 
Infinitives in English in Children with SLI
     Mabel Rice and Ken Wexler     610

The Neg-Criterion in Second Language Acquisition:
Evidence for a Dissociation between Function and Syntax
     Daniel Robertson     622

The Development of Language from Non-native Linguistic Input
     Danielle S. Ross and Elissa L. Newport     634

L1 and L2 Sensitivity to Semantic 
Constraints on Argument Structure
     Mark Sawyer     646

Why Do Swiss-German Children Like Verb Movement So Much?
     Manuela Schonenberger     658

Subject Case Licensing and English Root Infinitives
     Carson T. Schutze and Ken Wexler     670

Child Language and Optimality Theory: 
The Case of Consonant Harmony
     Susan Diane Scott     682

The Acquisition of Negation Interpretation Rules
     Dean Sharpe, Laurel Eakin, Marie-Helene Cote, 
     Guy Lacroix and John Macnamara     694

Venezuelan Children's Preliterate Narrative Development:
A Multidimensional Approach
     Martha Shiro     706

Pronoun Resolution Across Clauses:
Acquisition Evidence for the Structure of the Coreference 
Processor
     Ron Smyth and Siu-mei Cheung     718

The Acquisitional Role of the Syntax-Morphology Interface:
Morphological Compounds and Syntactic Complex Predicates
     William Snyder     728

The Genetic Basis of Language Acquisition
     Karin Stromswold     736

Bilingual Memory Representation in Korean-English 
and Spanish-English Bilinguals
     Hyekyung Sung and Amato M. Padilla     748

Prosody, Functors, and Word Recognition in Young Children
     Daniel Swingley, Anne Fernald, 
     Gerald W. McRoberts and John P. Pinto     760

Variable Vowel Epenthesis in Korean-accented English
     Jin-young Tak     768

Clitic Doubling in Early Spanish
     Vicenc Torrens and Kenneth Wexler     780

Empirical Evidence for the Modularity of 
Language from Grammatical SLI Children
     Heather K. J. van der Lely     792

The Computation and Representation of Past-tense Morphology in 
Specifically Language Impaired and Normally Developing Children
     Heather K. J. van der Lely and Michael Ullman     804

Root Infinitives without Infinitives
     Spyridoula Varlokosta, Anne Vainikka 
     and Bernhard Rohrbacher     816

Mechanisms of Fast Mapping in Preschool Children
     Krista M. Wilkinson and Susan A. Stanford     828

On Language Deficits and Modality in Children with 
Down Syndrome: A Case Study
     Bencie Woll and Nicola Grove     837

Acquisition of Japanese Numeral Classifiers
     Kasumi Yamamoto and Frank Keil     849

Responding to Compliments: A Contrastive Study on the English 
Pragmatics of Advanced Chinese Speakers of English
     Yi Yuan     861

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