BUCLD 22 Table of Contents

Volume One

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?
     José 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 Håkansson       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 Höhle and Jürgen 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 Two

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 Sánchez and María José Giménez       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
     Jürgen Weissenborn, Barbara Höhle, 
     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

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