BUCLD 24 Table of Contents

Volume One

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

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