The Cambridge Handbook of Child Language (Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics)

609 Pages·2009·5.71 MB·English

by  Edith L. Bavin

TheCambridgeHandbookofChildLanguage
Thebestsurveyofthesubjectavailable,TheCambridgeHandbookofChild
Languagebringstogethertheworld’sforemostresearcherstoprovidea
one-stopresourceforthestudyoflanguageacquisitionanddevelopment.
Groupedintofivethematicsections,thehandbookisorganizedbytopic,
makingiteasierforstudentsandresearcherstousewhenlookingupspecific
in-depthinformation.Itcoversawiderrangeofsubjectsthananyother
handbookonthemarket,withchapterscoveringboththeoriesandmethodsin
childlanguageresearch,andtracingthedevelopmentoflanguagefrom
prelinguisticinfancytoteenager.Drawingonbothestablishedandmore
recentresearch,theHandbooksurveysstatisticallearning;thecrosslinguistic
studyoflanguageacquisition;prelinguisticdevelopment,andtopicsin
semantic,pragmatic,andnarrativedevelopment;bilingualism;sign
languages;specificlanguageimpairment,languageandautism,Down
syndromeandWilliamssyndrome.Thefieldofchildlanguageresearchis
multi-disciplinary:thebookwillbeanessentialreferenceforstudentsand
researchersworkinginlinguistics,psychology,cognitivescience,speech
pathology,educationandanthropology.
edith l. bavin isProfessorintheSchoolofPsychologicalScienceat
LaTrobeUniversity,Australia.
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The Cambridge
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Contents
List of figures page vii
Listoftables viii
Listofcontributors ix
Acknowledgements xi
1. Introduction:perspectivesonchildlanguage EdithL.Bavin 1
PartI Theoreticalandmethodologicalapproaches 13
2. Innatenessandlearnability VirginiaValian 15
3. Statisticallearning ErikThiessen 35
4. Neurocognitionoflanguagedevelopment AngelaD.Friederici 51
5. Theusage-basedtheoryoflanguageacquisition Michael
Tomasello 69
6. Crosslinguisticapproachestolanguage
acquisition SabineStoll 89
PartII Earlydevelopments 105
7. Speechperception SuzanneCurtinandDanHufnagle 107
8. Crosslinguisticperspectivesonsegmentationand
categorizationinearlylanguageacquisition BarbaraHo¨hle 125
9. Fromgesturetoword SusanGoldin-Meadow 145
PartIII Phonology,morphologyandsyntax 161
10. Adynamicsystemsapproachtobabblingand
words MarilynM.Vihman,RoryA.DePaolisandTamar
Keren-Portnoy 163
11. Theprosodyofsyllables,wordsand
morphemes KatherineDemuth 183
12. Grammaticalcategories HeikeBehrens 199
13. Verbargumentstructure ShanleyAllen 217
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14. Thefirstlanguageacquisitionofcomplex
sentences BarbaraC.Lust,ClaireFoley,andCristinaD.Dye 237
15. Themorphosyntaxinterface KamilUdDeen 259
PartIV Semantics,pragmaticsanddiscourse 281
16. Lexicalmeaning EveV.Clark 283
17. Sentencescope StephenCrain 301
18. Sentenceprocessing JesseSnedeker 321
19. Pragmaticdevelopment JudithBeckerBryant 339
20. Languagedevelopmentinnarrativecontexts RuthA.Berman 355
PartV Varietiesofdevelopment 377
21. Childrenwithtwolanguages BarbaraZurerPearson 379
22. Signlanguageacquisitionstudies DianeLillo-Martin 399
23. Childrenwithspecificlanguageimpairment J.BruceTomblin 417
24. Languagesymptomsandtheirpossiblesourcesin
specificlanguageimpairment LaurenceB.Leonard 433
25. Thelanguageofchildrenwithautism RhiannonJ.Luyster
andCatherineLord 447
26. Languagedevelopmentingeneticdisorders Fiona
M.RichardsonandMichaelS.C.Thomas 459
References 473
Index 585
Figures
4.1 Theelectroencephalogram(EEG)isrecordedfromscalp
electrodes implemented in a cap page 52
4.2 Schematicviewofthelefthemisphere 53
4.3 Themismatchnegativity(MMN) 55
4.4 AveragedERPsperconditionforeachlanguagegroup 57
4.5 Thephonological–lexicalprimingeffect 60
4.6 TheN400asanindexoflexical–semanticprocesses 61
4.7 TheCPS(closurepositiveshift)asan
indexofprocessingintonationalphraseboundaries 63
4.8 TheELAN-P600patternasanindexofsyntactic
processes 65
4.9 Aschematicoverviewofthedevelopmentalstagesof
auditorylanguageperceptionandtheERPcorrelates 66
10.1 Thematchingofself-andother-producedvocal
patternstoownproduction,supportedbyafamiliar
situationaland/orverbalcontext,helpstheinfantto
‘choose’relativelyaccuratefirstwords 169
17.1 Theextra-objectcondition 312
18.1 Asketchoftheprocessesinvolvedincomprehending
spokenlanguage 322
18.2 Hypotheticalexample 324
18.3 Exampleofadisplayfortheverbbiasandprosody
experiments 330
18.4 Predictionsforthebetween-verbconditionsinthe
primingexperiment 335
23.1 Amodeloftheprincipalcausalsystemsthatcontribute
toindividualdifferences 426
25.1 EarlylanguagedevelopmentinchildrenwithASD:two
casestudies 449
25.2 TheoryofMind(ToM)inchildrenwithASD 450
Tables
10.1 First word forms: relative ‘accuracy’ page 168
10.2 Laterwordforms:theemergenceofaCVVNpattern 174
10.3 Laterwordforms:theemergenceofadisyllabicCVGlV
pattern 175
10.4 Laterwordforms:theemergenceofamonosyllabic
fricativecodapattern 176
10.5 Laterwordforms:theemergenceofadisyllabic
fricativecodapattern 176
10.6 Laterwordforms:theemergenceofa<VCV>pattern 177
10.7 Laterwordforms:theemergenceofa<VwV>pattern 178
14.1 Typesofknowledgethatmustbeintegratedin
adverbialclauses 249
15.1 RateofomissionofagreementandtenseinSwahili 268
15.2 Rateofagreementerrorsinarangeoflanguages 268
15.3 Hypotheticaldatasetshowingvariationinerrorrates
acrossfiles 269
15.4 UseofRIsandnon-RIs 271
20.1 Developmentalphasesinnarrativefunctionsof
linguisticforms 374
22.1 Summaryofresults–Lillo-MartinandQuadros(2005) 407
Contributors
ShanleyAllen,SchoolofEducation,BostonUniversity.
EdithL.Bavin,SchoolofPsychologicalSciences,LaTrobeUniversity.
JudithBeckerBryant,DepartmentofPsychology,UniversityofFlorida.
HeikeBehrens,EnglischesSeminar,Universita¨tBasel.
RuthA.Berman,LinguisticsDepartment,TelAvivUniversity.
EveV.Clark,DepartmentofLinguistics,StanfordUniversity.
StephenCrain,MacquarieCenterforCognitiveScience,Macquarie
University.
SuzanneCurtin,DepartmentsofLinguisticsandPsychology,University
ofCalgary.
KatherineDemuth,DepartmentofCognitiveandLinguisticSciences,
BrownUniversity.
RoryA.DePaolis,DepartmentofCommunicationSciencesand
Disorders,JamesMadisonUniversity.
CristinaD.Dye,DepartmentofNeuroscience,GeorgetownUniversity.
ClaireFoley,DepartmentofSlavicandEasternLanguages,Boston
College.
AngelaD.Friederici,DepartmentofNeuropsychology,MaxPlanck
InstituteforHumanCognitiveandBrainSciences,Leipzig.
SusanGoldin-Meadow,DepartmentofPsychology,Universityof
Chicago.
BarbaraHo¨hle,LinguisticsDepartment,UniversityofPotsdam.
DanHufnagle,DepartmentsofPsychologyandLinguistics,Universityof
Calgary.
TamarKeren-Portnoy,LanguageandLinguisticScience,Universityof
York.
LaurenceB.Leonard,DepartmentofSpeech,LanguageandHearing
Sciences,PurdueUniversity.
DianeLillo-Martin,DepartmentofLinguistics,UniversityofConnecticut
andHaskinsLaboratories.