14.3242, Books: Language Acquisition: Clark (ed)/Masataka

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Subject: 14.3242, Books: Language Acquisition: Clark (ed)/Masataka

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1)
Date:  Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:19:27 -0500 (EST)
From:  jreid at cup.org
Subject:  The Proceedings of the 30th Annual Child Language Research Forum: Clark

2)
Date:  Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:18:41 -0500 (EST)
From:  jreid at cup.org
Subject:  The Onset of Language: Masataka

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Date:  Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:19:27 -0500 (EST)
From:  jreid at cup.org
Subject:  The Proceedings of the 30th Annual Child Language Research Forum: Clark

Title: The Proceedings of the 30th Annual Child Language Research Forum
Series Title: Annual Child Language Research Forum Proceedings

Publication Year: 2000
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	    http://www.cup.org

Book URL: http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=1575862425

Availability: Available

Editor: Eve V Clark, Stanford University

Paperback: ISBN: 1575862425, Pages: 256, Price: U.S.: 24.95
Paperback: ISBN: 1575862425, Pages: 256, Price: U.K.: 15.95

Abstract:

The contributors to the Proceedings of the Thirtieth Meeting of the
Child Language Research Forum explore their findings on language
acquisition in a variety of the world's languages, reflecting the
diversity of interests in the field and the range of languages being
studied. This volume makes an empirical, as well as a theoretical,
contribution to linguistic research. Since its inception in 1967, the
Forum has provided an informal but critical setting for the
presentation of new ideas and research on first language
acquisition. The Forum itself is sponsored by the Linguistics
Department at Stanford University, and is organized by graduate
students. The Forum draws researchers from around the globe.

1. Assessing children's knowledge of word order with familiar and
   novel verbs
   Nameera Akhtar and Raquel Jaakkola
2. Developments in theory of mind and evidentiality
   Ayhan Aksu-Koc and Didem Mersin Alici
3. Modal reference in children's root infinitives
   Misha Becker and Nina Hyams
4. Isolated words in mothers' speech to infants
   Michael R. Brent and Jeffrey Mark Siskind
5. Differential effects of phonology and morphology in children's
   orthographic systems
   Steven Gillis and Dorit Ravid
6. Evidential final particles in child Cantonese
   Thomas Hun-tak Lee and Ann Law
7. Tense and aspect in French-speaking children's written and oral
   narratives
   Catherine Leger
8. Lexical specificity in children?s early language and its relation
   to lexical patterning in the input
   Elena Lieven and Anna Theakston
9. Typological differences and the development of representations in
   speech and gesture
   Asli Ozyurek and Seyda Ozcaliskan
10. The acquisition of tense/aspect and the cline of
    grammaticalization
    Hrafnhildur Ragnarsdottir, Sven Stromqvist and Asa Nordqvist
11. The acquisition of causative morphology
    Yasuhiro Shirai, Susanne Miyata, Norio Naka and Yoshiko Sakazaki
12. Studying on-line sentence processing in children
    John C. Trueswell, Irina Sekerina, Nicole M. Hill and Marian Logrip
13. The early make-up of children?s verb lexicons
    Sigal Uziel-Karl
14. The bilingual child
    Colleen Wapole
15. How Cantonese-speaking two-year-olds fend for themselves through
    the thicket of classifiers
    Cathy S. P. Wong
16. Compounding and inflection in Finnish child language
    Farrell Ackerman and Sirkka Vanttila
17. The acquisition of Japanese prosody
    Katsura Aoyama
18. The phonetics and phonology of minimal words in child speech
    John Archibald and Tim Mills
19. Gradual learning algorithm predicts acquisition order
    Paul Boersma and Clara C. Levelt
20. He descended legs-upwards
    Penelope Brown
21. A twin study of early vocabulary and grammatical development
    Jennifer Ganger, Steven Pinker, Allison Baker and Sonia Chawla
22. The givenness hierarchy and acquisition of referring expressions
    in English and Spanish
    Jeanette K. Gundel, Sherri Page and Maria Sera
23. A contextual analysis of a Japanese two-year-old's non-specific
    clarification requests
    Naomi Hamasaki
24. Do children ever learn about linguistic gender?
    Yonata Levy
25. High-dimensional semantic space and the acquisition of word meaning
    Ping Li, Kimberly Getty and Ashley Diefendorf
26. Aren't two children always alike?
    Julien Musolino
27. Learning inflectional agreement from parental speech
    Tony C. Smith
28. Cross-situational observation and the semantic bootstrapping
    hypothesis
    Jesse Snedeker
29. Acquisition of Turkish word order
    Karin Stromswold and Natalie Batman-Ratyosyan
30. Tone sandhi as evidence for segmentation in Taiwanese
    Jane Tsay, Xiao-Jun Chen and James Myers.

Lingfield(s):   Language Acquisition

Written In: English (Language Code: English)

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Date:  Tue, 25 Nov 2003 11:18:41 -0500 (EST)
From:  jreid at cup.org
Subject:  The Onset of Language: Masataka

Title: The Onset of Language
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Cognitive and Perceptual
              Development, 9

Publication Year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://www.cup.org

Book URL: http://us.cambridge.org/titles/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521593964

Availability: Available

Author: Nobuo Masataka, Kyoto University

Hardback: ISBN: 0521593964, Pages: 293, Price: U.S.: 70.00
Hardback: ISBN: 0521593964, Pages: 293, Price: U.K.: 47.50

Abstract:

The Onset of Language outlines an approach to the development of
expressive and communicative behaviour from early infancy to the onset
of single word utterances. Nobuo Masataka's research is rooted in
ethology and dynamic action theory. He argues that expressive and
communicative actions are organised as a complex and cooperative
system with other elements of the infant's physiology, behaviour and
the social environments. Overall, humans are provided with a finite
set of specific behaviour patterns, each of which is phylogenetically
inherited as a primate species.  However, the patterns are uniquely
organised during ontogeny and a coordinated structure emerges which
eventually leads us to acquire language. This fascinating book offers
exciting, new insights into the precursors of speech and will be of
interest to researchers and students of psychology, linguistics and
animal behaviour biology.

1. Introduction
2. The development of the ability to take turns
3. Cooing in three-month-old infants
4. The development of vocal imitation
5. How infant-directed speech influences infant vocal development
6. From laughter to babbling
7. Earliest language development in Sign Language
8. From babbling to speaking
9. Summary and conclusion.

Lingfield(s):   Cognitive Science
		Language Acquisition
		Psycholinguistics

Written In: English (Language Code: English)

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