PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE ACQUISITION

[Nihan Ketrez]

The following publication from the VIIth IASCL Congress held in Istanbul
is now availabe for sale:

		PERSPECTIVES ON LANGUAGE ACQUISITION:
	SELECTED PAPERS FROM THE VIITH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
		FOR THE STUDY OF CHILD LANGUAGE

Ayhan Aksu-Koc, Eser Erguvanli-Taylan, A. Sumru Ozsoy and Aylin Kuntay
(Eds.), Istanbul: Bogazici University Press, 1998.


The volume is a collection of 26 articles covering various issues in the
areas of language capacity, morphosyntax, modality, input and interaction,
lexicon, narratives, language disorders, literacy and methodology.

The book can be obtained from the Bogazici University Bookstore. Orders
can be made by e-mail (Kitabevi at boun.edu.tr.) and payment can be made by
credit card. Price is $20.00 plus postage.

Table of  CONTENTS

List of Contributors vii-xi

Preface xiii-xviii

LANGUAGE CAPACITY

1.	Permeable modules: on evolving and acquiring language-specific
	capacities		1-16

	Lise Menn and Ann M. Peters

2.	Sign language and motor development in infancy	17-30
	
	John D. Bonvillian, Herbert C. Richards, and M. Ibrahim Saah

MORPHOSYNTAX

3.	Rule and rote in the acquisition of Palestinian Arabic
	noun plurals		31-45
	
	Dorit Ravid and Rola Farah

4.	Number or case first?  Evidence from modern Greek	46-59
	Anastasia Christofidou

MODALITY

5.	The development of different types of conditionals in Greek:
	implications for issues of acquisition and typology	60-76

	Demetra Katis

6.	Development of Modality in Korean and Turkish:
 	A crosslinguistic comparison
								77-96
	Soonja Choi and Ayhan Aksu-Koc

7.	Children's understanding of expressions of possibility and
	necessity						97-107
	
	Jane Wakefield

INPUT AND INTERACTION

8.	Maternal question-responses  in early child-mother-dialogue
	108-123	

	Bernd Reimann

9.	Three interactional portraits from Mohawk, Inuit,
	and White Canadian cultures	124-139

	Wendy Hough-Eyami and Martha B. Crago

10. 	One parent, two languages: the effect of input on bilingual
	acquisition 140-155
	
	 Suzanne Quay

11. 	Do early simultaneous bilinguals have a "foreign accent"
	in one or both of their languages?	156-168

	Barbara Zurer Pearson and Ana M. Navarro

INPUT AND LEXICON

12.	What color is the cat?  Color terms in parent-child
 	conversations				169-178

	 Jean Berko Gleason and Richard Ely

13. 	Conceptual change or semantic development:
	a crosslinguistic explanation for animism	179-196
	 Ng Bee Chin

14. 	Adult input for lexical development: contrast and
	correction in context				197-206
	
	Mireille Donkervoort and Loekie Elbers

15. 	Relations between language input and the semantic
	structure of lexical terms in the acquisition of lexical meaning
	207-220
	 Miguel Angel Galeote

NARRATIVES

16. 	Involvement in narrative practice: audience response
	in child-adult conversational story telling	221-236
	 Shoshana Blum-Kulka

17.	Conversational narratives of Turkish children:
	occasions and structures			237-250
	
	Aylin Kuntay and Susan M. Ervin-Tripp

18.	Understanding mind. Psychological lexicon in the
 	stories told by children			251-262

	Emma Baumgartner, Antonella Devescovi and Elena Biagini

19. 	Introducing referents in elicited discourse:
	 Finnish vs. Turkish
								263-276
	 Lisa Dasinger and Aylin Kuntay

20. 	Referent tracking in Greek and German children's narratives
	277-291
	
	Ursula Stephany

LANGUAGE DISORDERS

21. 	Anaphoric cohesion in young language-impaired and normally
	developing children	292-308
	
	Genevieve de Weck

22. 	Language development in Spanish children  with
	Williams syndrome		309-324
	
	Eliseo Diez-Itza, Aranzazu Anton, Joaquin Fernandez-Toral,
	 M#187# Luisa Garcia-Perez


LITERACY

23. 	"But ain't no nasty word:" Mothers' use of recitation
	 style in picture book reading		325-336
	 Patton O. Tabors and Jeanne M. De Temple

24.	 Children's  and adults' syllabification. The influence
	 of spelling				337-354

	 Steven Gillis and Dominiek Sandra

ON METHODOLOGY

25. 	Including non-verbal communicative acts in the mean
	 length of turn analysis using Childes	355-367
	 Magda Rivero, Marta Gracia and Pilar Fernandez-Viader

26.	 Comparing lexical and grammatical development in
	 morphologically different languages	368-383

	 Melita KovaAevicg, Zrinka Jelaska, Bla#162#enka Brozovicg

Author index 385