Language acquisition : core readings / [print]
edited by Paul Bloom.
- first MIT Press edition.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : MichiganT Press, (c)1994.
- ix, 622 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Learning a semantic system : what role do cognitive predispositions play? / Melissa Bowerman -- Language acquisition in the absence of experience Language growth with experience without feedback On learning the past tenses of English verbs Rules of language Level-ordering in lexical development Beyond the input given : the child's role in the acquisition of language / Susan Goldin-Meadow and Carolyn Mylander -- Maturational constraints on language learning Innate constraints and developmental change The instinct to learn Stephen Crain -- Richard F. Cromer -- D.E. Rumelhart and J.L. McClelland -- Steven Pinker -- Peter Gordon -- Elissa L. Newport -- Annette Karmiloff-Smith -- Peter Marler. Preface : language acquisitions Overview : controversies in language acquisition Human maternal vocalizations to infants as biologically relevant signals : an evolutionary perspective Modularity and constraints in early lexical acquisition : evidence from children's early language and gesture Infant contributions to the achievement of joint reference Constraints children place on word meanings The structural sources of verb meanings Early word meanings : the case of object names The notion of source in language acquisition Affectedness and direct objects : the role of lexical semantics in the acquisition of verb argument structure Paul Bloom -- Paul Bloom -- Anne Fernald -- Laura Ann Petitto -- Dare A. Baldwin -- Ellen M. Markman -- Lila Gleitman -- Janellen Huttenlocher and Patricia Smiley -- Eve V. Clark and Kathie L. Carpenter -- Jess Gropen ... [and others.