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BUCLD 24 Proceedings
BUCLD 24: Proceedings of the 24th annual
Boston University Conference on Language Development
edited by S. Catherine Howell, Sarah A. Fish, and Thea Keith-Lucas
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The Proceedings of the 24th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development contain 68 papers from the November 1999 conference, including the keynote paper by Elissa Newport and Richard Aslin and the plenary paper by Stephen Crain.
Contents
BUCLD 24: Proceedings of the 24th annual
Boston University Conference on Language Development
edited by S. Catherine Howell, Sarah A. Fish, and Thea Keith-Lucas
Contents | Series info | Previous in series | Next in series | Order form
 | x + 807 pages (2-volume set) publication date: March 2000 ISBN 978-1-57473-052-4 paperback, $60.00 ISBN 978-1-57473-152-1 library binding, $125.00 |
The Proceedings of the 24th annual Boston University Conference on Language Development contain 68 papers from the November 1999 conference, including the keynote paper by Elissa Newport and Richard Aslin and the plenary paper by Stephen Crain.
Contents
Volume 1
Innately Constrained Learning: Blending Old
and New Approaches to Language Acquisition
Elissa L. Newport and Richard N. Aslin 1-21
Sense and Sense Ability in Child Language
Stephen Crain 22-44
Acquisition and Use of 'a' and 'the' in
English by Young Children
Ahmad Abu-Akel and Alison L. Bailey 45-57
Language Attrition: Why Are
Resumptive Pronouns So Susceptible?
Sharon Armon-Lotem 58-67
The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts:
Investigating the Object Scope Principle of Lexical Acquisition
Karen Arnold, Roberta Michnick Golinkoff,
Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek, George Hollich, Kevin Driscoll,
Camille Rocroi, and Elizabeth Hennon 68-79
Children Who Build Bridges
Sergey Avrutin and Peter Coopmans 80-91
The Cocktail Party Effect in Infants:
Following One's Mother's Voice
Brittan A. Barker and Rochelle S. Newman 92-103
The Acquisition of the English Copula
Misha Becker 104-115
Ça on fait pas! On The L2-Acquisition of French
by Two Young Children with Different Source Languages
Adriana Belletti and Cornelia Hamann 116-127
How Dutch Children's Root Infinitives Become Modal
Elma Blom and Frank Wijnen 128-139
Imperatives in Bilingual Child Icelandic-English
Ute Bohnacker 140-150
The Influence of Focusing Stress on Infants'
Recognition of Words in Fluent Speech
Heather Bortfeld and James Morgan 151-163
L2 Acquisition of Spanish DPs:
The Status of Grammatical Features
Joyce Bruhn de Garavito and Lydia White 164-175
Optional Bound Morphology in the
Development of Text Production
Dalia Cahana-Amitay and Dorit Ravid 176-184
Null and Overt Subjects in Early Child Korean
Sook Whan Cho 185-196
Learning to Learn Words: A Cross-Linguistic
Study of the Shape and Material Biases
Eliana Colunga and Linda B. Smith 197-207
Indexing Self-Other Relationships through Directives:
The Construction of Class, Social Roles, and Authority in
Indian and Mexican-American Caregiver-Child Interaction
Lisa Comparini and Sunil Bhatia 208-219
Phonological Effects on Article Omission in
the Acquisition of Italian
Paola Crisma and Elisabetta Tomasutti 220-231
How the Brain Copes with a Phantom Hemisphere
and Supports Language Development
Stella de Bode and Susan Curtiss 232-241
Structure Building and the Acquisition of Dislocations
in Child French
Cécile De Cat 242-252
Necessity in Grammatical Design and L2 Acquisition:
Quantifier and Tense in English-French Interlanguage
Laurent Dekydtspotter, Rex A. Sprouse,
and Alison Leininger 253-264
Reference to Protagonists' Mental States in the Written
Narratives of Deaf Children: The Contribution of
English Syntax and ASL Skills
Peter A. de Villiers, Jessica Church, Roberta Giordano,
Melissa Whalen, and Robert Hoffmeister 265-275
From Head to Adjunct: Evidence from the Acquisition
of German Ditransitive Verbs
Heiner Drenhaus 276-285
On the Acquisition of an Indefinite Determiner:
Evidence for Unselective Binding
Claire Foley, Barbara Lust, David Battin,
Annie Koehne, and Katherine White 286-298
Children's Knowledge of the Grammar
of Restrictive Relative Clauses
Cathy Fragman and Helen Goodluck 299-307
Some Notes on the Null Object Phenomenon in Child Spanish
Hanako Fujino and Tetsuya Sano 308-318
Aspect Parameter in the Guise of
Optional Infinitives in Child L2 English
Elena Gavruseva 319-330
Are Verbs Hard to Understand? Continuity vs.
Discontinuity in Early Lexical Development
Beverly A. Goldfield 331-342
The Resilience of Ergative Structure in
Language Created by Children and by Adults
Susan Goldin-Meadow, Elif Yalabik,
and Lisa Gershkff-Stowe 343-353
Variation and Continuity in Language Acquisition:
An Analysis of Early Child German and French
William Earl Griffin 354-366
Acquisition of Disjunction in Conditional Sentences
Andrea Gualmini, Stephen Crain,
and Luisa Meroni 367-378
Missing Case Inflection: Implications
for Second Language Acquisition
Ayse Gürel 379-390
Will Training on Language Influence
Theory of Mind Development?
Courtney Melinda Hale and Helen Tager-Flusberg 391-398
Volume 2
Learning Proper Names and Count Nouns:
Evidence from Toddlers
D. Geoffrey Hall and Sharon C. Lee 399-408
Of Musical Hand Chairs and Linguistic Swing
Kazuko Hiramatsu, William Snyder, Thomas Roeper,
Stephanie Storrs, and Matthew Saccoman 409-417
The Origins of Syntactic Knowledge: Recognition
of Determiners in One-Year-Old German Children
Barbara Höhle and Jürgen Weissenborn 418-429
Temporal Dependencies: Complement and
Relative Clauses Compared
Bart Hollebrandse 430-437
The Interaction between Input and Economy:
Acquiring Optionality in French Wh-Questions
Aafke Hulk and Shalom Zuckerman 438-449
Phonologically Weak Items in
Abnormal Acquisition of French
Celia Jakubowicz, Laurice Tuller,
and Catherine Rigaut 450-461
When Young Children Name Artifacts by Their Functions:
Effects of the Plausibility of Structure/Function Relations
Deborah G. Kemler Nelson and Elizabeth Blair 462-473
A Longitudinal Study of Lexical and Prosodic Differentiation
by a Simultaneous French/English Bilingual Child (1;5 - 2;3)
Christopher L. LaBelle 474-485
Characteristics of Maternal Speech in Korean:
Do Korean and Japanese Maternal Speech Show Similar Characteristics?
Soyoung Lee and Mineharu Nakayama 486-497
Morphology in Children with Williams Syndrome:
Evidence from Hebrew
Yonata Levy and Shula Hermon 498-509
Functional Wh and Language Acquisition: Weak Crossover and
Wh/Quantifier Asymmetries in Child Language
John D. Lewis 510-521
Learning Phonemes without Minimal Pairs
Jessica Maye and LouAnn Gerken 522-533
Acquiring Semantic Properties of Preterite
and Imperfect Tenses in L2 Spanish
Silvina Montrul and Roumyana Slabakova 534-545
Crosslinguistic Influence in Bilingual Children:
Object Omissions and Root Infinitives
Natascha Müller and Aafke Hulk 546-557
Climb up vs. Ascend Climbing: Lexicalization Choices in
Expressing Motion Events with Manner and Path Components
Seyda Ozcaliskan and Dan I. Slobin 558-570
Early Communication: Beyond Speech-Act Theory
Anna Papafragou 571-582
Felicity, Relevance, and Acquisition of
the Grammar of Every and Only
William Philip and Emily Lynch 583-596
Prosodic Constraints and the Learner's Environment:
A Corpus Study
Brian Roark and Katherine Demuth 597-608
Imagining Articles: What a and the Can
Tell Us about the Emergence of DP
Robin J. Schafer and Jill de Villiers 609-620
The Role of the Expletive in the
Acquisition of a Discourse Anaphor
Robin J. Schafer and Thomas Roeper 621-632
Within-Language Dissociations in Mental Retardation:
Williams-Beuren and Down Syndrome
Chris Schaner-Wolles 633-644
The Lost Word: Language Attrition among Children
Elena Schmitt 645-656
Deviant Verb Placement and the Split-CP Hypothesis
Manuela Schönenberger 657-668
An Elicitation Study of Young English Children's
Knowledge of Tense: Semantic and Syntactic
Properties of Optional Infinitives
Carson T. Schütze and Kenneth Wexler 669-683
Incremental Referentially-Based Language Processing
in Children: Evidence from Eye Monitoring
Julie Sedivy, Katherine Demuth,
Gitana Chunyo, and Shelby Freedman 684-695
The Development of Early Spatial Morphology
in Nicaraguan Sign Language
Ann Senghas 696-707
Evidence for Use of Phrasal Packaging
by English-Learning 9-Month-Olds
Melanie Soderstrom, Peter Jusczyk,
and Deborah Kemler Nelson 708-718
Differential Effects of Attrition in the L1 Syntax
of Near-Native L2 Speakers
Antonella Sorace 719-725
Auxiliary Verb Learning and 18-Month-Olds' Acquisition
of Morphological Relationships
Ruth Tincoff, Lynn Santelmann, and Peter Jusczyk 726-737
Lack of Clitic-Pronoun Distinctions in the Acquisition
of Principle B in Child Greek
Spyridoula Varlokosta 738-748
Passives and Implicit Arguments in Child Language
Maaike Verrips 749-760
Getting the Point Across: Content and Dynamics in Japanese
and American Mothers' Storytelling to Preschool Children
Tomoko Wakabayashi and Anne Fernald 761-772
Distinguishing Count Nouns from Adjectives: Evidence from
14-Month-Olds' Novelty-Preference and Word-Extension
Sandra R. Waxman and Amy Booth 773-784
How Languages Influence Children's
Categorization of Specific Objects
Hanako Yoshida and Linda B. Smith 785-796
Is Thematic-Verb Raising Inevitable in
the Acquisition of a Nonnative Language?
Boping Yuan 797-807