thanks for info on methods

[Ruth Berman]

Dear all

In response to my request for studies comparing naturalistic and
structured elicitations (which I need for a colleague doing work on
adult usage in different languages in a particular semantic field), I
would like to thank to thank the following friends for their helpful
feedback:  Gary Marcus, Steve Pinker, Brian Richard, Dan Slobin, and
Juergen Weissenborn -- and am particularly grateful to Barbara Lust and
Dick Weist for sending me relevant materials of their own to my
sabbatical address here in Lyon.

The two main books which contain several relevant studies are:
L. Menn & N. Bernstein-Ratner, eds.  1999. *Methods in Studying Language
Production.  Mahwah*, NJ:  Erlbaum (especially the editors'
introduction)

D. McDaniel, C. McKee & H. Smith Cairns, 1996 *Methods for assessing
children's syntax*.  MIT Press.

Other relevant studies are the monograph:
Marcus, G.F., Pinker, S., Ullman, M., Hollander, J.M., Rosen, T.J., &
Xu, F. (1992). *Overregularization in language acquisition*
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.,
57(4, Serial No. 228).

and Brian Richards, "Language development and individual differences: a
study of auxiliary verb learning" in a Cambridge UP publication.

Thanks again to all, hope this stimulates further studies on these and
related issues.
ruth berman