Riassunto
This volume presents research in the field of first language acquisition discussed at the 1992 meeting of the Child Language Research Forum. The contributors are Shanley E. M. Allen, Heike Behrens, Paul Bloom, Anne Christophe, Martha B. Crago, Lisa Dasinger, Kenneth F. Drozd, Emmanuel Dupoux, Boris N. Goldowsky, Jiansheng Guo, Aylin Kuntay, Barbara Landau, Elizabeth Lanza, Ping Li, Michael Maratsos, Jacques Mehler, Elissa L. Newport, Raquel S. Olguin, William Philip, Dan I. Slobin, Trisha Svaib, Michael Tomasello, Cecile Toupin, Jill de Villiers, and Amanda Woodward.
Contenuti
1. Foreword; 2. Learning the language of space Barbara Landau; 3. Where do constraints on word meaning come from? Paul Bloom; 4. The effect of labeling on children's attention to objects Amanda Woodward; 5. The verb-specific organization of children's early grammars Raquel S. Olguin and Michael Tomasello; 6. Early encoding of temporal reference in German Heike Behrens; 7. Event quantification in preschoolers' comprehension of negation Kenneth F. Drozd and William Philip; 8. Sentence subjects and the assignment of target of modal force: children's use of the mandarin modal auxiliary Jainsheng Guo; 9. Monotonicity and the acquisition of weak Wh-Islands William Philip and Jill de Villers; 10. Early acquisition of passive morphology in inuktikut Shanley E. M. Allen and Martha B. Crago; 11. Modeling the effects of processing limitations on the acquisition of morphology: the less is more hypothesis Boris N. Goldowsky and Elissa L. Newport; 12. Artificial overregularizations? Michael Maratosos; 13. Are doggies really little? Evidence from children's use of diminuitives Trisha Svaib; 14. Cryptotypes, meaning-form mappings and overgeneralizations Ping Li; 15. Native language reacquisition in early childhood Dan I. Slobin, Lisa Dasinger, Aylin Küntay and Cecile Toupin; 16. Language mixing and language dominance in bilingual first language acquisition Elizabeth Lanza; 17. How do infants extract words from the speech stream? 18. A discussion of the bootstrapping problem for lexical acquisition Anne Christophe, Emmanuel Dupoux and Jacques Mehler; 19. General index; 20. Language index.
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