New Directions In Language Development And Disorders

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Theories of Language Learning and Children with Specific Language Impairment

   • Laurence B. Leonard

   Pages 1-5

3. The Relevance of Recent Research on SLI to Our Understanding of Normal Language Development

   • Gina Conti-Ramsden

   Pages 7-11

4. Time Parsing, Normal Language Acquisition, and Language-Related Developmental Disorders

   • Jill Boucher

   Pages 13-23

5. How Optional is “Optional” in the Extended Optional Infinitive Stage?

   • Karen Brunger, Alison Henry

   Pages 25-37

6. Derivational Morphology in Sli Children

   • Dorit Ravid, Galit Avivi, Ronit Levy

   Pages 39-49

7. Speech Monitoring in Retarded Children

   • Y. Levy, A. Tennebaum, A. Ornoy

   Pages 51-60

8. Gesture Use by Two Children with Tracheostomy

   • Marilyn K. Kertoy, Alison A. Morrison

   Pages 61-71

9. Three Hypotheses on Early Grammatical Development*

   • Michael Garman, Christina Schelletter, Indra Sinka

   Pages 73-83

10. Could a chomskyan Child Learn Polish?

    • Ewa Dabrowska

    Pages 85-95

11. On the Acquisition of Pronominal Reference in Child—Greek

    • Spyridoula Varlokosta, Panayiota Karafoti, Varvara Karzi

    Pages 97-103

12. The Emergence of Periphrastic Questions in Child—French

    • Bernadette Plunkett

    Pages 105-117

13. The Role of Performance Limitations in the Acquisition of “Mixed” Verbargument Structure at Stage I

    • Anna L. Theakston, Elena V. M. Lieven, Julian M. Pine, Caroline F. Rowland

    Pages 119-128

14. Argument Structure Preferences in Pre-School and School-Age Children*

    • R. Ingham, Christina Schelletter, Indra Sinka

    Pages 129-137

15. Argument Structure Alternation in French Children’s Speech

    • I. Barrière, M. Lorch, M. T. Le Normand

    Pages 139-147

16. Lexically Specified Patterns in Early Verbal Morphology in Spanish*

    • Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole, Eugenia Sebastián, Pilar Soto

    Pages 149-168

17. Infants of 24-30 Months Understand Verb Frames

    • Edith L. Bavin, Carli Growcott

    Pages 169-177

18. Morphological Future in Italian Children*

    • Carla Bazzanella, Cristina Bosco

    Pages 179-188

19. Cross-Linguistic Developmental Evidence of Implicit Causality In Visual Perception and Cognition Verbs

    • Fabia Franco, Alessandra Tasso, M. Chiara Levorato, James Russell

    Pages 189-198

20. What They Hear is What You Get? Infinitives and Modality in Child Language and Child-Directed Speech*

    • Elma Blom, Masja Kempen, Steven Gillis, Frank Wijnen

    Pages 199-209

Research into child language development is being conducted more extensively, by more people, and in more countries throughout the world than at any point in the past. We now know more than we ever did before about the linguistic, cognitive, neurobio­ logical, and social capacities that children bring to their language learning task, as well as the ways in which these capacities interact with a whole range of factors present in the child's environment throughout the learning process, not least the particular character­ istics of the language or languages to which the child is exposed. Far from inducing a sense of complacency, this new knowledge seems instead to create an even stronger impetus to know more. This is partly because of the new and unforeseen questions it raises and partly because of competition between different theories to provide the best explanation of the phenomenon, and which in turn engender different methods of enquiry. This volume addresses many of the key issues which are currently exercising the minds of child language researchers, and which are likely to motivate research for some years to come. The chapters included here-all previously unpublished-present a great deal of new data and address a range of theoretical issues from a variety of perspectives.

• Syntax
• Verb
• development
• language
• language acquisition
• learning
• morphology
• semantics

• University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England

  Michael Perkins, Sara Howard

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