Sentence First, Arguments Afterward: Essays in Language and Learning

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by  Lila Gleitman, Jeffrey Lidz (editor)

Sentence First, Arguments Afterward
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Sentence First, Arguments Afterward: Essays in Language and Learning
Lila R. Gleitman
Edited by Jeffrey Lidz
Sentence First,
Arguments Afterward
Essays in Language and Learning
LILA R. GLEITMAN
Edited by
JEFFREY LIDZ
Foreword by
NOAM CHOMSKY
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To my children, who learned to speak, and occasionally to listen.

Contents
I. PRELIMINARIES
Foreword xiii
Noam Chomsky
Acknowledgments xix
Contributors xxi
1. From Structuralism to Cognitive Science: Lila R. Gleitman’s
Contributions to Language and Cognition 1
Jeffrey Lidz
II. WHAT DO THEY KNOW AND
WHEN DID THEY KNOW IT?
2. The Impossibility of Language Acquisition (And How They Do It) 25
Lila R. Gleitman, Mark Y. Liberman, Cynthia A. McLemore, and
Barbara H. Partee
3. A Study in the Acquisition of Language: Free Responses to
Commands 57
Elizabeth F. Shipley, Carlota S. Smith, and Lila R. Gleitman
4. The Emergence of the Child as Grammarian 86
Lila R. Gleitman, Henry Gleitman, and Elizabeth F. Shipley
5. Language Use and Language Judgment 114
Henry Gleitman and Lila R. Gleitman
III. WHERE DOES LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE COME
FROM? INPUT AND INNATENESS
6. Mother, I’d Rather Do It Myself: Some Effects and Non-E ffects of
Maternal Speech Style 141
Elissa L. Newport, Henry Gleitman, and Lila R. Gleitman
7. Beyond Herodotus: The Creation of Language by Linguistically
Deprived Deaf Children 178
Heidi Feldman, Susan Goldin- Meadow, and Lila R. Gleitman
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8. Every Child an Isolate: Nature’s Experiments in Language Learning 241
Lila R. Gleitman and Barbara Landau
IV. HARD WORDS AND SYNTACTIC
BOOTSTRAPPING A: ESTABLISHING PLAUSIBILITY
9. The Structural Sources of Verb Meanings 261
Lila R. Gleitman
10. On the Semantic Content of Subcategorization Frames 313
Cynthia Fisher, Henry Gleitman, and Lila R. Gleitman
11. Human Simulations of Vocabulary Learning 380
Jane Gillette, Henry Gleitman, Lila R. Gleitman, and Anne Lederer
V. HARD WORDS AND SYNTACTIC
BOOTSTRAPPING B: BUT IS IT TRUE?
12. Understanding How Input Matters: Verb Learning and the
Footprint of Universal Grammar 431
Jeffrey Lidz, Henry Gleitman, and Lila R. Gleitman
13. Hard Words 463
Lila R. Gleitman, Kimberly Cassidy, Anna Papafragou,
Rebecca Nappa, and John C. Trueswell
14. When We Think About Thinking: The Acquisition of Belief Verbs 508
Anna Papafragou, Kimberly Cassidy, and Lila R. Gleitman
VI. EASY WORDS? NOT SO EASY
15. How Words Can and Cannot Be Learned by Observation 557
Tamara Nicol Medina, Jesse Snedeker, John C. Trueswell, and
Lila R. Gleitman
16. Propose But Verify: Fast Mapping Meets Cross-S ituational Word
Learning 575
John C. Trueswell, Tamara Nicol Medina, Alon Hafri,
and Lila R. Gleitman
17. Quality of Early Parent Input Predicts Child Vocabulary
3 Years Later 623
Erica A. Cartmill, Benjamin F. Armstrong III, Lila R. Gleitman,
Susan Goldin- Meadow, Tamara Nicol Medina, and John C. Trueswell
Contents ix
18. The Easy Words: Reference Resolution in a Malevolent
Referent World 641
Lila R. Gleitman and John C. Trueswell
VII. WORDS AND CONCEPTS
19. What Some Concepts Might Not Be 669
Sharon Lee Armstrong, Lila R. Gleitman, and Henry Gleitman
20. Why Stereotypes Don’t Even Make Good Defaults 713
Andrew C. Connolly, Jerry A. Fodor, Lila R. Gleitman, and
Henry Gleitman
21. Similar, and Similar Concepts 736
Lila R. Gleitman, Henry Gleitman, Carol Miller, and Ruth Ostrin
22. The Emergence of the Formal Category “Symmetry” in
a New Sign Language 790
Lila R. Gleitman, Ann Senghas, Molly Flaherty,
Marie Coppola, and Susan Goldin- Meadow
23. Turning the Tables: Language and Spatial Reasoning 809
Peggy Li and Lila R. Gleitman
24. Relations Between Language and Thought 843
Lila R. Gleitman and Anna Papafragou
Index 879