Language Development The Essential Readings

This collection brings together for students the essential readings from the broad and fast-moving field of child language development.

Elizabeth Bates is Professor of Psychology and Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of California, San Diego, where she also directs the Center for Research in Language and the Project in Cognitive and Neural Development. She is a visiting scholar on a regular basis at the National Research Council Institute of Psychology in Rome. She has authored or co-authored more than 150 papers and nine books, including most recently, Rethinking Innateness (1996).

Michael Tomasello is Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. His previous publications include Primate Cognition (1997), The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure (1998) and The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (1999).

Acknowledgments

vii

General Introduction

1

(12)

Part I Introduction to Speech Perception

13

(44)

Finding and Remembering Words: Some Beginnings by English-Learning Infants

19

(7)

Peter W. Jusczyk

Listening to Speech in the 1st Year of Life

26

(8)

Janet F. Werker

Renee N. Desjardins

Language Discrimination by Human Newborns and by Cotton-Top Tamarin Monkeys

34

(8)

Franck Ramus

Marc D. Hauser

Cory Miller

Dylan Morris

Jacques Mehler

Infant Artificial Language Learning and Language Acquisition

42

(7)

R.L. Gomez

L.A. Gerken

Rapid Gains in Speed of Verbal Processing by Infants in the 2nd Year

49

(8)

Anne Fernald

John P. Pinto

Daniel Swingley

Amy Weinberg

Gerald W. McRoberts

Part II Introduction to Word Learning

57

(106)

Young Children's Appreciation of the Mental Impact of Their Communicative Signals

62

(14)

Helen I. Shwe

Ellen M. Markman

Lexical Development in English and Italian

76

(35)

Maria Cristina Caselli

P. Casadio

E. Bates

Perceiving Intentions and Learning Words in the Second Year of Life

111

(18)

Michael Tomasello

Evidence Against a Dedicated System for Word Learning in Children

129

(5)

Lori Markson

Paul Bloom

On the Inseparability of Grammar and the Lexicon: Evidence from Acquisition

134

(29)

Elizabeth Bates

Judith C. Goodman

Part III Introduction to Grammatical Development

163

(128)

The Item-Based Nature of Children's Early Syntactic Development

169

(18)

Michael Tomasello

Acquiring Basic Word Order: Evidence for Data-Driven Learning of Syntactic Structure

187

(16)

Nameera Akhtar

The Acquisition of Plural Marking in English and German Revisited: Schemata Versus Rules

203

(24)

Klaus-Michael Kopcke

An Exploration into Children's use of Passives

227

(21)

Nancy Budwig

Acquisition of Complementation

248

(19)

Lois Bloom

Matthew Rispoli

Barbara Gartner

Jeremie Hafitz

Form/Function Relations: How Do Children Find Out What They Are?

267

(24)

Dan I. Slobin

Part IV Brains, Genes, and Computation in Language Development

291

(60)

Connectionism and Language Acquisition

295

(12)

Jeffrey L. Elman

Neural Correlates of Early Language Learning

307

(24)

Barbara Clancy

Barbara Finlay

Development Itself is the Key to Understanding Developmental Disorders

331

(20)

Annette Karmiloff-Smith

Index

351

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