Full Description
In this handbook, renowned scholars from a range of backgrounds provide a state of the art review of key developmental findings in language acquisition. The book places language acquisition phenomena in a richly linguistic and comparative context, highlighting the link between linguistic theory, language development, and theories of learning.
The book is divided into six parts. Parts I and II examine the acquisition of phonology and morphology respectively, with chapters covering topics such as phonotactics and syllable structure, prosodic phenomena, compound word formation, and processing continuous speech. Part III moves on to the acquisition of syntax, including argument structure, questions, mood alternations, and possessives. In Part IV, chapters consider semantic aspects of language acquisition, including the expression of genericity, quantification, and scalar implicature. Finally, Parts V and VI look at theories of learning and aspects of atypical language development respectively.
Contents
Contributors
List ob Abbreviations
1: Jeffrey Lidz, William Snyder, and Joe Pater: Introduction
Part I: The Acquisition of Sound Systems
2: Ewen Dunbar and William Idsardi: The Acquisition of Phonological Inventories
3: Tania S. Zamuner and Viktor Kharlamov: Phonotactics and Syllable Structure in Infant Speech Perception
4: Heather Goad: Phonological Processes in Children's Production: Convergence with and Divergence from Adult Grammars
5: Mitsuhiko Ota: Prosodic Phenomena: Stress, Tone, and Intonation
Part II: The Acquisition of Morphology
6: William Snyder: Compound Word Formation
7: Anne-Michelle Tessier: Morpho-phonological Acquisition
8: Louise Goyet, Séverine Millotte, Anne Christophe, and Thierry Nazzi: Processing Continuous Speech in Infancy: From Major Prosodic Units to Isolated Word Forms
Part III: The Acquisition of Syntax
9: Joshua Viau and Ann Bunger: Argument Structure
10: Maria Teresa Guasti: Voice Alternations (Active, Passive, Middle)
11: Koji Sugisaki: On the Acquisition of Prepositions and Particles
12: Misha Becker and Susannah Kirby: A-Movement in Language Development
13: Jill de Villiers and Tom Roeper: The Acquisition of Complements
14: Rosalind Thornton: Acquisition of Questions
15: John Grinstead: Root Infinitives in Child Language and the Structure of the Clause
16: Kamil Ud Deen: Mood Alternations
17: Virginia Valian: Null Subjects
18: Paul Hagstrom: Case and Agreement
19: Theodoros Marinis: Acquiring Possessives
Part IV: The Acquisition of Semantics
20: Kristen Syrett: Acquisition of Comparative and Degree Constructions
21: Jeffrey Lidz: Quantification in Child Language
22: Sergio Baauw: The Acquisition of Binding and Coreference
23: Takuya Goro: Logical Connectives
24: Ana T. Pérez-Laroux: The Expression of Genericity in Child Language
25: Angeliek van Hout: Lexical and Grammatical Aspect
26: Anna Papafragou and Dimitrios Skordos: Scalar Implicature
Part V: Theories of Learning
27: Jeffrey Heinz: Computational Theories of Learning and Developmental Psycholinguistics
28: Lisa Pearl and Sharon Goldwater: Statistical Learning, Inductive Bias, and Bayesian Inference in Language Acquisition
29: William Gregory Sakas: Computational Approaches to Parameter Setting in Generative Linguistics
30: Gaja Jarosz: Learning with Violable Constraints
Part VI: Atypical Populations
31: Andrea Zukowski: Language Development in Children with Developmental Disorders
32: Jennifer Ganger: The Genetics of Spoken Language
33: Daniel A. Dinnsen, Jessica A. Barlow, and Judith A. Gierut: Phonological Disorders: Theoretical and Experimental Findings
References
Index
