Children's Language: Volume 5

by Nelson; K. E.

• ISBN13: 9780898593464
• ISBN10: 0898593468
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1985-01-01
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Table of Contents

Iascl	p. ii
Contributors	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Bootstrapping Operations in Child Language	p. 1
Fathers, Siblings, and the Bridge Hypothesis	p. 23
Situational Variability in Mother-Child Conversations	p. 43
Why Routines Are Different: Toward a Multiple-Factors Model of the Relation Between Input and Language Acquisition	p. 65
Conversation and Language Learning in the Classroom	p. 99
Temporal Characteristics of Maternal Verbal Styles	p. 137
The Phonology of Parent- Child Speech	p. 159
Comparison of Initial Consonant Acquisition in English and Quiché	p. 175
Early Semantic Developments and Their Relationship to Object Permanence, Means- Ends Understanding, and Categorization	p. 191
Comprehending Concrete Metaphors: Developing an Understanding of Topic- Vehicle Interaction	p. 213
Order of Acquisition in the Lexicon: Implications from Japanese Numeral Classifiers	p. 229
Children's Overgeneralizations of the English Dative Alternation	p. 261
Some Observations from the Perspective of the Rare Event Cognitive Comparison Theory of Language Acquisition	p. 289
Author Index	p. 333
Subject Index	p. 343
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