Experience, Variation and Generalization

Abstract

1. Acknowledgements 2. List of contributors 3. Introduction (by Arnon, Inbal) 4. Part I. Extracting regularities 5. Toward a theory of gradual morphosyntactic learning (by Rispoli, Matthew) 6. Cues to form and function in the acquisition of German number and case inflection (by Behrens, Heike) 7. Developing first contrasts in Spanish verb inflection: Usage and interaction (by Rojas Nieto, Cecilia) 8. Part II. Multiple cues in learning to communicate 9. A new look at redundancy in children's gesture and word combinations (by Kelly, Barbara F.) 10. Learning the meaning of um: Toddlers' developing use of speech disfluencies as cues to speakers' referential intentions (by Kidd, Celeste) 11. Part III. Discovering units 12. From first words to segments: A case study in phonological development (by Vihman, Marilyn) 13. Analysis and generalization across verbs and constructions: The development of transitives and complement-clause constructions in German (by Brandt, Silke) 14. Two- and three-year-olds' linguistic generalizations are prudent adaptations to the language they hear (by Bannard, Colin) 15. Units of learning in language acquisition (by Arnon, Inbal) 16. Part IV. Individual differences 17. Causes and consequences of variability in early language learning (by Fernald, Anne E.) 18. Individual differences in measures of linguistic experience account for variability in the sentence processing skill of five-year-olds (by Anderson, Sarah E.) 19. Genetic variation and individual differences in language (by Misyak, Jennifer B.) 20. Part V. Mechanisms for learning 21. Language as a process (by Croft, William A.) 22. Memory, sleep and generalization in language acquisition (by Gomez, Rebecca L.) 23. Bayesian modeling of sources of constraint in language acquisition (by Perfors, Amy) 24. Index