Riassunto
This volume presents research in the field of first language acquisition discussed at the 1993 meeting of the Child Language Research Forum. The contributors are Maria A. Alegre, Ursula Bellugi, Jeffrey G. Bettger, Paul Bloom, Melissa Bowerman, Ursula Brinkmann, Penelope Brown, Nancy Budwig, Joan Bybee, Alice Shuk-yee Cheung, Soonja Choi, Patricia Clancy, Stephen Crain, William Croft, Cynthia Crosser, Peter Culicover, Eve Danziger, Sonja Eisenbeiss, Karen Emmorey, Susan Ervin-Tripp, Claire Foley, Dicky G. Gilbers, Adele E. Goldberg, Alison Gopnik, Peter Gordon, Susan A. Graham, Jiansheng Guo, D. Geoffrey Hall, Alison Henry, James H. Hoeffner, Qian Hu, Tara Jackson, Catalina Johnson, Shyam Kapur, Bonita P. Klein, Edward S. Klima, Amy Kyratzis, Marie Labelle, Barbara Landau, Thomas Hun-tak Lee, Barbara Lust, Rachel I. Mayberry, James L. McClelland, Zelmira Nez del Prado, Dominique Nouveau, Diane Poulin-Dubois, Lisa Riche, Nancy Soja, Susan Toth-Sadjadi, Andrew Chung-yee Tse, and Klarien J. van der Linde. Eve V. Clark is Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University, author of The Lexicon in Acquisition, and co-author of Psychology and Language (with Herbert H. Clark).
Contenuti
1. What are the connections? language acquisition and linguistic theory William Croft; 2. Typological perspectives on language acquisition: do crosslinguistic patterns predict development? Melissa Bowerman; 3. Mechanisms for the creation of grammar Joan Bybee; 4. Continuity and modularity Stephen Crain; 5. Degrees of freedom Peter Culicover; 6. Can a perceptual processing deficit explain the impairment of inflectional morphology in development dysphasia? a computational investigation James H. Hoeffner and James L. McClelland; 7. How much of what? is this what underlies parameter-setting? Shyam Kapur; 8. Another look at some learnability paradoxes Adele E. Goldberg; 9. The first language timing hypothesis as demonstrated by American sign language Rachel I. Mayberry; 10. Development and breakdown of phonological awareness for ASL Lisa Riche, Ursula Bellugi, Karen Emmorey, Jeffrey G. Bettger and Edward S. Klima; 11. Nouns are not always learned before verbs: an early verb spurt in Korean Soonja Choi and Alison Gopnik; 12. Cantonese-speaking children's comprehension of Wh-questions Alice Shuk-Yee Cheung and Thomas Hun-Tak Lee; 13. Constraints on the interpretation of proper names D. Geoffrey Hall; 14. Overextension of animacy in Chinese classifier acquisition Qian Hu; 15. The development of the differentiation of wanna and gonna in discourse Cynthia Crosser; 16. The significance of CP to the pro-drop parameter: an experimental study comparing Spanish and English Zelmira Núñez del Prado, Claire Foley and Barbara Lust; 17. Nonindividuation versus affectedness: what licenses the promotion of the prepositional objects? Ursula Brinkmann; 18. Slippin' and slidin' on the sonority scale Dicky G. Gilbers and Klarien J. van der Linde; 19. Dutch word stress: evidence from acquisition Dominique Nouveau; 20. Ontology and perception, object kind and object naming Barbara Landau; 21. The role of object kind and shape in the acquisition of nouns Nancy Soja; 22. Count nouns vs. words; individuals vs. objects: rethinking some constraints on word meaning Paul Bloom; 23. The role of shape in the acquisition of Tzeltal (Mayan) locatives Penelope Brown; 24. Is the noun-category bias a noun-shape bias? Diane Poulin-Dubois, Bonita P. Klein, Susan A. Graham and Ilana Frank; 25. What might mother mean? the acquisition of kinship vocabulary in Mopan Maya Eve Danziger; 26. Auxiliaries and the acquisition of the passive in German Sonja Eisenbeiss; 27. Expression of subject in Mexican Spanish Catalina Johnson; 28. Intrusive or misplaced QUE in the language of French-speaking children Marie Labelle; 29. Finding the red rat eater: lexical recursion in children's compounding Peter Gordon, Maria A. Alegre and Tara Jackson; 30. The development of internal state language in linguistically precocious toddlers Susan Toth-Sadjadi; 31. Variability and language acquisition Alison Henry; 32. The development of a phonological system in Cantonese: a case report Andrew Chung-Yee Tse; 33. Perspectives on the grammar-discourse connection in child language: 25 years at the child language research forum Nancy Budwig; 34. Preferred argument structure in Korean acquisition Patricia Clancy; 35. Discourse motivations for the development of mandarin modal auxiliaries Jiansheng Guo; 36. Pragmatic and discursive influences on the acquisition of subordination-coordination Amy Kyratzis; 37. Constructing syntax from discourse Susan Ervin-Tripp; General Index; Language Index.
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