Research Catalog

Title

The proceedings of the Twenty-sixth Annual Child Language Research Forum / edited by Eve V. Clark.

Author

Child Language Research Forum (26th : 1994 : Stanford University)

Publication

[Stanford] : Published for the Stanford Linguistics Association by the Center for the Study of Language and Information, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

Clark, Eve V.

Description

vii, 253 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Alternative Title

Child Language Research Forum

Subjects

• Language acquisition > Congresses
• Children > Language > Congresses

Note

• Held April 15-17, 1994.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Syntactic and Conceptual Factors in the Acquisition of Collective Nouns / Paul Bloom and Deborah Kelemen -- Phonotactics and the Lexicon: Beyond Bootstrapping / Michael Brent, Adamantios Gafos and Timothy Cartwright -- The Case of NP-type Nouns: Support for Semantic Theories of Acquisition / Tracey Burns and Nancy N. Soja -- Modelling the Acquisition of Lexical Segmentation / Paul Cairns, Richard Shillcock, Nick Chater and Joe Levy -- Who's the subject? Structural Guides for Verb Learning / Cynthia L. Fisher -- Evidence from Comprehension for Early Knowledge of Pronouns / Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Gabriella Hermon and Diana Kaufman -- When Do Children Acquire Verbs? / Clifton Pye, Diane Frome Loeb, Sean Redmond and Lori Zobel Richardson -- Inferring the Innateness of Syntactic Knowledge / T. John Rosen and Sara Thomas Rosen -- On the Acquisition of Split Ergativity: Some Evidence from Urdu / Anjun P. Saleemi --
• Grammatical and Caregiver Cues in Early Sentence Comprehension / Michele Shady and LouAnn Gerken -- Child Language Evidence on Palestinian Arabic Phonology / Kimary N. Shahin -- Modulation of Object Perception by Count and Mass Syntax / Kaveri Subrahmanyam and Barbara Landau -- Romance Auxiliary Selection with Reflexive Clitics: Evidence for Early Knowledge of Unaccusativity / William Snyder, Nina Hyams and Paola Crisma -- Noun Class Prefixes in Sesotho Child-directed Speech / Yasmine L. Ziesler and Katherine Demuth -- The Acquisition of Embedded Clauses with Finite Verbs in Nonfinal Position in Dutch / Isabella Barbier -- How a Word-learning Principle Might Interact with Metalinguistic Knowledge and Input / Jennifer E. DeWitt -- A Further Examination of the Shape Bias in Early Word Learning / Dedre Gentner and Mutsumi Imai -- Discourse Organisation in French children's Narratives / Harriet Jisa and Sophie Kern --
• Children's Knowledge of Pronoun Usage in Discourse / Sharon Levinsky and LouAnn Gerken -- How Children Talk about Conversations: Development of Roles and Voices / Asli Ozyurek -- Acquisition of the Referential System in American Sign Language / Lisa Riche, Jeffrey G. Bettger and Edward S. Klima -- Interpreting Attention-directing Gestures / Chris L. Schmidt -- Nouns Are Not Always Learned Before Verbs, but Why? Evidence from Mandarin Chinese / Twila Tardif -- 12-month-old Infants Have the Conceptual Resources to Support the Acquisition of Count Nouns / Fei Xu, Susan Carey, Kyra Raphaelidis and Anastasia Ginzbursky -- Index of Previous CLRF Proceedings.

ISBN

• 1881526569
• 1881526577 (pbk.)

OCLC

ocm33180558

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries