The Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Child Language Research Forum

by Clark, Eve V.

• ISBN13: 9781575860626
• ISBN10: 1575860627
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-06-01
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Center for the Study

Summary

The contributors to the Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Child Language Research Forum explore their findings on language acquisition in a variety of the world's languages, reflecting the diversity of interests in the field and the range of languages being studied. This volume makes an empirical, as well as a theoretical, contribution to linguistic research. Since its inception in 1967, the Forum has provided an informal but critical setting for the presentation of new ideas and research on first language acquisition. The Forum itself is sponsored by the Linguistics Department at Stanford, and is organised by graduate students. The Forum draws researchers from around the globe. The papers presented at the Forum reflect the diversity of interests in the field and the range of languages being studied.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
A Study of Chinese Children's Comprehension of Universal Quantifiers	1	(14)
XIANGDONG JIA
PATRICIA J. BROOKS
MARTIN D.S. BRAINE
Workshop	15	(26)
Perspectives on an Emerging Language	15	(26)
JUDY A. KEGL
JOHN MCWHORTER
Papers	41
Isolating the CVC Root in Tzeltal Mayan: A Study of Children's First Verbs	41	(12)
PENELOPE BROWN
Functors in Early On-Line Sentence Comprehension	53	(10)
ALLYSON CARTER
LOU ANN GERKEN
Pragmatic Comprehension: Development of Mandarin-Speaking Children's Strategies for Interpretation of Given and New Information	63	(10)
SHU-HUI EILEEN CHEN
Reference and Representation: What Polynomy Tells Us About Children's Conceptual Studies	73	(12)
GEDEON DEAK
MICHAEL MARATSOS
From Adam('s) and Eve('s) to Mine and Yours in German Singletons and Siblings	85	(10)
WERNER DEUTSCH
ANGELA WARNER
RENATE BURCHARDT
KAREN JAHN
NINA SCHULZ
Is the Simultaneous Acquisition of Two Languages in Early Childhood Equal to Acquiring Each of the Two Languages Individually?	95	(18)
SUSANNE DOPKE
Codas, Word-minimality, and Empty-headed Syllables	113	(10)
HEATHER GOAD
Pronominal reference in 3-year-olds narratives	123	(10)
NORMA JEAN GOMME
CAROLYN E. JOHNSON
The Acquisition of Controlled PRO: A Crosslinguistic Perspective	133	(10)
HELEN GOODLUCK
ARHONTO TERZI
GEMA CHOCANO DIAZ
Evidence in Phonological Acquisition: Implications for the Initial Ranking of Faithfulness Constraints	143	(10)
MARK HALE
CHARLES REISS
The Role of Input in the Acquisition of Past Verb Forms in English and Dutch: Evidence from a Bilingual Child	153	(10)
ANNICK DE HOUWER
The Role of Prosody in the Acquisition of Grammatical Morphemes	163	(10)
RICHARD F.-S. HUNG
Scope and Distributivity in Child Mandarin	173	(10)
THOMAS LEE
Vertical Path in Tzotzil (Mayan) Early Acquisition: Linguistic vs Cognitive Determinants	183	(16)
LOURDES DE LEON
Are English-speaking One-year-olds Verb Learners Too?	199	(14)
LETICIA NAIGLES
Gender-based Differences in the Language of Japanese Preschool Children: A Look at Metalinguistic Awareness	213	(10)
KEI NAKAMURA
Rhythm in Newborns' Language Processing	223	(10)
THIERRY NAZZI
Overextension of Intransitive Verbs in the Acquisition of Japanese	233	(10)
MASAMI NOMURA
YASUHIRO SHIRAI
Pronominalizations in the Narratives of Turkish-speaking Children	243	(16)
F. HULYA OZCAN
The Acquisition of Past Tense Inflection in Icelandic and Norwegian Children	259	(12)
HRAFNHILDUR RAGNARSDOTTIR
HANNE GRAM SIMONSEN
KIM PLUNKETT
The Linguistic Encoding of Spatial Relations in Scandinavian Child Language Development	271	(12)
HRAFNHILDUR RAGNARSDOTTIR
SVEN STROMQVIST
Using the Semantics Associated with Syntactic Frames for Interpretation without the Aid of Context	283	(12)
NITYA SETHURAMAN
ADELE E. GOLDBERG
JUDITH C. GOODMAN
The Verbalisation of Motion Events in Arrernte	295
DAVID P. WILKINS