Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgments
• Overview
• Part 1 The Onset of Language Development
• Part 2 Word Learning
• Part 3 Syntax and Semantics
• Part 4 Morphology
• Part 5 Acquisition in Special Circumstances
• Part 6 Alternative Perspectives
• Preface: Language Acquisitions
• Overview: Controversies in language acquisition
• Introduction
• A Brief Overview
• The Course of Language Development
• Input to Language Development
• The Acquisition of Word Meaning
• Constraints on Word Meaning
• Problems with Constraints
• Syntactic Cues to Word Meaning
• The Emergence of Syntax
• Discontinuous Theories
• Continuous Theories
• Parameter Setting: The Case of Null Subjects
• Explanations for Subject Omission in Child English
• Null Subjects and the Logic of Parameter Setting
• Cognitive Architecture and Recovery from Error: The Case of Verbs
• The Phenomenon of Overregularization
• Alternative Conceptualizations
• Overregularization of Semantic Alternations
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• Notes to "Overview"
• References to "Overview"
• Part 1 The Onset of Language Development
• 1.1 Human Maternal Vocalizations to Infants as Biologically Relevant Signals: An Evolutionary Perspe...
• 1.2 Modularity and Constraints in Early Lexical Acquisition: Evidence from Children's Early Language...
• Part 2 Word Learning
• 2.1 Infant Contributions to the Achievement of Joint Reference
• 2.2 Constraints Children Place on Word Meanings
• 2.3 The Structural Sources of Verb Meanings
• 2.4 Early Word Meanings: The Case of Object Names
• Part 3 Syntax and Semantics
• 3.1 The Notion of Source in Language Acquisition
• 3.2 Affectedness and Direct Objects: The Role of Lexical Semantics in the Acquisition of Verb Argume...
• 3.3 Learning a Semantic System: What Role Do Cognitive Predispositions Play?
• 3.4 Language Acquisition in the Absence of Experience
• 3.5 Language Growth with Experience without Feedback
• Part 4 Morphology
• 4.1 On Learning the Past Tenses of English Verbs
• 4.2 Rules of Language
• 4.3 Level-Ordering in Lexical Development
• Part 5 Acquisition in Special Circumstances
• 5.1 Beyond the Input Given: The Child's Role in the Acquisition of Language
• 5.2 Maturational Constraints on Language Learning
• Part 6 Alternative Perspectives
• 6.1 Innate Constraints and Developmental Change1
• 6.2 The Instinct to Learn
• Index