Table of Contents

1. Foreword; 2. Learning the language of space Barbara Landau; 3. Where do constraints on word meaning come from? Paul Bloom; 4. The effect of labeling on children's attention to objects Amanda Woodward; 5. The verb-specific organization of children's early grammars Raquel S. Olguin and Michael Tomasello; 6. Early encoding of temporal reference in German Heike Behrens; 7. Event quantification in preschoolers' comprehension of negation Kenneth F. Drozd and William Philip; 8. Sentence subjects and the assignment of target of modal force: children's use of the mandarin modal auxiliary Jainsheng Guo; 9. Monotonicity and the acquisition of weak Wh-Islands William Philip and Jill de Villers; 10. Early acquisition of passive morphology in inuktikut Shanley E. M. Allen and Martha B. Crago; 11. Modeling the effects of processing limitations on the acquisition of morphology: the less is more hypothesis Boris N. Goldowsky and Elissa L. Newport; 12. Artificial overregularizations? Michael Maratosos; 13. Are doggies really little? Evidence from children's use of diminuitives Trisha Svaib; 14. Cryptotypes, meaning-form mappings and overgeneralizations Ping Li; 15. Native language reacquisition in early childhood Dan I. Slobin, Lisa Dasinger, Aylin Küntay and Cecile Toupin; 16. Language mixing and language dominance in bilingual first language acquisition Elizabeth Lanza; 17. How do infants extract words from the speech stream? 18. A discussion of the bootstrapping problem for lexical acquisition Anne Christophe, Emmanuel Dupoux and Jacques Mehler; 19. General index; 20. Language index.

About the Author

Barbara Kelly is assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. Eve V. Clark is professor of linguistics at Stanford University.