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9780262521871

Language Acquisition

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  • ISBN13:

    9780262521871

  • ISBN10:

    0262521873

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1994-02-01
  • Publisher: Bradford Books

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Summary

Language Acquisition offers, in one convenient reader, work by the most outstanding researchers in each field and is intended as a snapshot of the sort of theory and research taking place in language acquisition in the 1990s. All of the articles and chapters were chosen to reflect topics and debates of current interest, and all take an interdisciplinary approach to language development, relating the study of how a child comes to possess a language to issues within linguistics, computational theory, biology, social cognition, and comparative psychology. While there are several introductory texts on language development, and countless collections of articles, thisscientists are asking about language acquisition, the important experimental findings, and the key theoretical debates, suitable for students at advanced levels and scholars with a range of different perspectives and interests. The readings are organized into six sections: - the onset of language development, - word learning, - syntax and semantics, - morphology, - acquisition in special circumstances, and - alternative perspectives. Each section serves as an introduction to a specific area and provides sufficient background for further reading. Contributors: Dare A. Baldwin. Paul Bloom. Melissa Bowerman. Kathie L. Carpenter. Eve V. Clark. Stephen Crain. Richard F. Cromer. Anne Fernald. Lila Gleitman. Richard Goldberg. Susan Goldin-Meadow. Peter Gordon. Jess Gropen. Michelle Hollander. Janellen Huttenlocher. Annette Karmiloff-Smith. Ellen M.Markman. Peter Marler. Jay L. McClelland. Carolyn Mylander. Elissa L. Newport. Laura Ann Petitto. Steven Pinker. David E. Rumelhart. Patricia Smiley. A Bradford Book

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Overview
The Onset of Language Development
Word Learning
Syntax and Semantics
Morphology
Acquisition in Special Circumstances
Alternative Perspectives
Preface: Language Acquisitions
Overview: Controversies in language acquisition
Introduction
A Brief Overview
The Course of Language Development
Input to Language Development
The Acquisition of Word Meaning
Constraints on Word Meaning
Problems with Constraints
Syntactic Cues to Word Meaning
The Emergence of Syntax
Discontinuous Theories
Continuous Theories
Parameter Setting: The Case of Null Subjects
Explanations for Subject Omission in Child English
Null Subjects and the Logic of Parameter Setting
Cognitive Architecture and Recovery from Error: The Case of Verbs
The Phenomenon of Overregularization
Alternative Conceptualizations
Overregularization of Semantic Alternations
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes to "Overview"
References to "Overview"
The Onset of Language Development
Human Maternal Vocalizations to Infants as Biologically Relevant Signals: An Evolutionary Perspe...
Modularity and Constraints in Early Lexical Acquisition: Evidence from Children's Early Language...
Word Learning
Infant Contributions to the Achievement of Joint Reference
Constraints Children Place on Word Meanings
The Structural Sources of Verb Meanings
Early Word Meanings: The Case of Object Names
Syntax and Semantics
The Notion of Source in Language Acquisition
Affectedness and Direct Objects: The Role of Lexical Semantics in the Acquisition of Verb Argume...
Learning a Semantic System: What Role Do Cognitive Predispositions Play?
Language Acquisition in the Absence of Experience
Language Growth with Experience without Feedback
Morphology
On Learning the Past Tenses of English Verbs
Rules of Language
Level-Ordering in Lexical Development
Acquisition in Special Circumstances
Beyond the Input Given: The Child's Role in the Acquisition of Language
Maturational Constraints on Language Learning
Alternative Perspectives
Innate Constraints and Developmental Change1
The Instinct to Learn
Index
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