Books: Language Acquisition: New Perspectives on Language Acquisition

[Bart Hollebrandse]

Language Acquisition

G.L.S.A. (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) announces a new volume: 
	New Perspectives on Language Acquisition (UMOP 22)
	edited by Bart Hollebrandse

This volume focuses on First Language Acquisition and its relation
with Linguistic Theory. The volume is a collection of papers presented 
at the workshop "New Perspectives on Language Acquisition" held at 
the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. 

Main issues were topics concerning the early acquisition of syntactic
structure, the acquisition of aspectual and pragmatic components of 
the grammar, the relation between language acquisition and theory of 
mind. Furthermore, some papers discussing issues concerning binding 
theory as well as island behavior and their relation with a Formal
Feature system were included. 

CONTENTS

Preface

Early Stages of Language Acquisition

Binarity and Singularity in Child Grammar						1
	Susan Powers	
		
Verb-Complement Patterns in Early Catalan						15
	Mireia Llinàs i Grau
                	
Agreement Mismatches and the Economy of Derivation				27
	Sharon Armon-Lottem

The Acquisition of Verb Movement in Hebrew					37
	Shalom Zuckerman	


Developing Representations I: Specificity, Aspect, and Theory of Mind

The Interaction of Syntax and Pragmatics in the Acquisition of Scrambling 	49
	Jeanette Schaeffer

Specificty, Acquisition of DPs, and the Development of a Theory of Mind
						65
	Ana T. Pérez-Leroux	
                	
What Children Know When They know about Viewpoint Aspect: Aspect and Theory
of Mind											77
	Laura Wagner	
		
On learning the Role of Direct Objects for Telicity in Dutch and English 	87
	Angeliek van Hout	
	

Developing Representations II: Tense and Theory of Mind
	
Tense and Discourse in African-American English	107
	Michael Walsh Dickey, Valerie Johnson, Thomas Roeper and Harry Seymour

	

On Acquiring the Structural Representations for False Complements		125
	Jill de Villiers	
		
On Theory of Mind and Sequence of Tense in Dutch				137
	Bart Hollebrandse	
		


Later Stages in Child Language: Binding and Island behavior 
		
Optimality Theory, Child Language and Logical Form  				155
	Arild Hestvik	
		
Reciprocity and Binding in Early Child Grammar					167
	Ayumi Matsuo

On the Nature of Children's Left-Branch Violations				177
	William Snyder, Deborah Chen, Maki Yamane, Laura Conway,  and Kazuko
Hiramatsu		
Negative Islands in Language Acquisition						187
	Lamya Abdulkarim, Thomas Roeper, and Jill de Villiers	
		
Finding Fundamental Operations in Language Acquisition: Formal features as
triggers										197
	Thomas Roeper


further information: 	
	Graduate Linguistics Student Association
	Linguistics Department UMass
	South College
	Amherst, MA 01003
	U.S.A.	
	glsa at linguist.umass.edu
	http://www.umass.edu/linguist/GLSA/glsa.html				



Bart Hollebrandse
Utrecht institute of Linguistics OTS	
Trans 10, 3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands
tel: 31-30-2535127; fax: 31-30-2536000