The Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Child Language Research

by Clark, Eve V.

• ISBN13: 9781881526575
• ISBN10: 1881526577
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-06-01
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Center for the Study

Summary

This book is the product of the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Stanford Child Language Research Forum held in April, 1994. The conference included panel sessions organised by Terry K.-F. Au on 'Does input constrain word-learning principles?', Matthew Rispoli on 'Pronoun case errors: new approaches to an old phenomenon', and Janet F. Werker on 'Setting the stage for acquisition: experiential influences on infant speech perception'.

Table of Contents

Editor's note

1. Papers Paul Bloom and Deborah Kelemen

2. Syntactic and conceptual factors in the acquisition of collective nouns Tracy C. Burns and Nancy N. Soja

3. The case of NP-type nouns: support for semantic theories of acquisition Paul Cairns, Richard Shillcock, Nick Chater and Joe Levy

4. Modelling the acquisition of lexical segmentation Cynthia Fisher

5. Who's the subject? Structural guides for verb learning Adamantios I. Gafos, Michael Brent, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta M. Golinkoff, Gabriella Hermon, Dede Kaufman, Clifton Pye, T. John Rosen and Sara Thomas Rosen

6. Inferring the innateness of syntactic knowledge Anjum P. Saleemi

7. On the acquisition of split ergativity Michele Shady and Lou Ann Gerken

8. Grammatical and care-giver cues in early sentence comprehension Kimary N. Shahin

9. Child language evidence on Palestinian Arabic phonology Kaveri Subrahmanyam and Barbara Landau

10. Modulation of object perception by count and mass syntax William Snyder, Nina Hyams and Paola Crisma

11. Romance auxiliary selection with reflexive clitics: evidence for early knowledge of unaccusativity Yasmine L. Ziesler and Katherine Demuth

12. Noun class prefixes Sesotho child-directed speech Isabelle Barbier

13. The acquisition of embedded clauses with finite verbs in nonfinal position in Dutch Jennifer E. DeWitt

14. How a word-learning principle might interact with metalinguistic knowledge and input Dedre Gentner and Mutsumi Imai

15. A further examination of the shape bias in early word learning Harriet Jisa, Sophie Kern, Sharon Levinsky and LouAnn Gerken

16. Children's knowledge of pronoun usage in discourse Asli Ozyü

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17. How children talk about conversations: development of roles and voices Lisa Riche, Jeffrey G. Bettger and Edward S. Klima

18. Acquisition of the referential system in American sign language Chris Schmidt

19. Interpreting attention-getting gestures Twila Tardif

20. Nouns are not always learned before verbs, but why? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese Richard M. Weist, Paula Lyytinen and Jolanta Wysocka, Fei Xu, Susan Carey, Kyra Raphaelides and Anastasia Ginzbursky

21. 12-month-old infants have the conceptual resources to support the acquisition of count nouns

Listing of all CLRF papers originally published in PRCLD]

Index.