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Approaches to Bootstrapping.
Phonological, lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects
of early language acquisition.
Juergen Weissenborn and Barbara Hoehle (Eds)

Vol. 1 (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 23) 2001,
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Volume 1 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses
on early word learning and syntactic development
with special emphasis on the bootstrapping
mechanisms by which the child using properties of
the speech input enters the native linguistic
system. Topics discussed in the area of lexical
acquisition are: cues and mechanisms for
isolating words in the input; special features of
motherese and their role for early word learning;
the determination of first word meanings; memory
and related processing capacities in early word
learning and understanding; and lexical
representation and lexical access in early
language production. The papers on syntactic
development deal with the acquisition of
grammatical prosodic features for learning
language specific syntactic regularities.

Volume 2 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses
on the interaction between the development of
prosodic and morphosyntactic knowledge as
evidenced in the early speech of Dutch,English,
German, Portugese, Spanish, Danish, Islandic, and
Swedish children sheding new light on the
relation between universal and language specific
aspects of language acquisition. Another section
of this volume deals with new approaches to
language acquisition using ERP- techniques. The
papers discuss in detail the relation between the
development of language skills and changes in
neurophysiological aspects of the brain.
The potentials of these techniques for the
development of new tools for an early diagnosis
of children who are at risque for developmental
language disorders are also pointed out. The
closing section contains a synopsis of
interactionist approaches to language
acquisition, a discussion of the genetic and
experiential origin of primitive linguistic
elements in acquisition, and a discussion of
structural and developmental aspects of bird
song in comparison to human language.
The two volumes making up Approaches to
Bootstrapping present a state-of-the art
interdisciplinary and cross-linguistic overview
of recent developments in first language
acquisition research.

Table of Contents

Introduction  vii

PART I
Early Word Learning and its Prerequisites

Bootstrapping from the Signal: Some further directions.
Peter W.  Jusczyk		     3

Contributions of Prosody to Infants' Segmentation
and Representation of Speech.
Catharine H. Echols	    25

Implicit Memory Support for Language Acquisition.
Cynthia Fisher & Barbara A. Church	     47

How Accessible is the Lexicon in Motherese?
Nan Bernstein Ratner & Becky Rooney     71

Bootstrapping a First Vocabulary.
Lila Gleitman & Henry Gleitman	     79

Infants' Developing Competence in Recognizing and
Understanding Words in Fluent Speech.
Anne Fernald, Gerald W. McRoberts & Daniel
Swingley  97

Lemma Structure in Language Learning: Comments on
representation and realization.
Cecile McKee & Noriko Iwasaki		    125

PART II
>From Input Cues to Syntactic Knowledge

Signal to Syntax: Building a bridge.
 LouAnn Gerken                          147

A Reappraisal of Young Children's Knowledge of
Grammatical Morphemes.
Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek &
Melissa A. Schweisguth       167

Predicting Grammatical Classes from Phonological
Cues: An empirical test.
Gert Durieux & Steven Gillis      189

Pre-lexical Setting of the Head-Complement parameter
through prosody.
Maria Teresa Guasti, Anne Christophe, Brit van
Ooyen & Marina Nespor          231

Discovering Word Order Regularities: The role of
prosodic information for early parameter setting.	
Barbara Hoehle, Juergen Weissenborn, Michaela
Schmitz & Anja Ischebeck    249

On the Prosody/Lexicon Interface in Leaming Word
Order: A study of normally developing and
language-impaired children.
Zvi Penner, Karin Wymann & Juergen Weissenborn  267

Index	 295	

PART III
Interactions of Prosodic and Morphosyntactic
Knowledge in Early Language Production

Prosodic Constraints on Morphological Development.
Katherine Demuth  3

The Interface of Phonology and Syntax: The
emergence of the article in the early acquisition
of Spanish and German.
Conxita Lleo  23

Interaction between Prosody and Morphosyntax:
Plurals within codas in the acquisition of
European Portuguese.
M. Joao Freitas, Matilde Miguel & Isabel Hub
Faria 45

Compounds Triggering Prosodic Development.
Paula Fikkert  59

Prosodic Form, Syntactic Form, Phonological
Bootstrapping, and Telegraphic Speech.
David Lebeaux  87

>From Prosody to Grammar in English: The
differentiation of catenatives, modals, and
auxiliaries from a single protomorpheme.
Ann M. Peters  121

Input and production in the early development of
function words.
Sven Stroemqvist, Hrafnhildur Ragnarsdottir &
Ulla Richthoff  157

PART IV
Neurophysiological Aspects of Language Acquisition
Language Development during Infancy and Early
Childhood: Electrophysiological correlates.
Dennis L. Molfese, Dana B. Narte, Amy J. Van
Matre,Michelle R. Ellefson & Arlene Modglin 181

Development Patterns of Brain Activity:
Reflecting semantic and syntactic processes.
Angela D. Friederici & Anja Hahne  231

Electrophysiological Studies of Language Development.
Marie St. George & Debra L. Mills  247

PART V
Additional Perspectives on Language Acquisition

Interactionist Approaches to Early Language Acquisition.
Kim Plunkett  263

Repertoires of Primitive Elements: Prerequisite or
result of acquisition?
Manfred Bierwisch  281

Developmental Trajectories of Complex Signal
Systems in Animals: The model of bird song.
Henrike Hultsch & Dietmar Todt  309

Index			                       333

Juergen Weissenborn
University of Potsdam
Department of Linguistics
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D-14415 Potsdam
Germany

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