Language Development The Essential Readings

by Tomasello, Mike; Bates, Elizabeth

• ISBN13: 9780631217459
• ISBN10: 0631217452
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-21
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

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