4-Volume Set

LanguageAcquisitionCRITICAL CONCEPTS IN LINGUISTICS

Edited and with a new introduction by Charles Yang, University ofPennsylvania, USA

This new addition to Routledge’s Major Works series, Critical Concepts inLinguistics, brings together the very best and most influential scholarlyresearch in over half a century of language-acquisition research. Thecollection represents and reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the field, byhighlighting models and methodologies from—and implications for—adjacent areas such as psycholinguistics, developmental psychology,computer science, and comparative cognition. In addition, the collectionsteers users to the most important, as well as controversial, issues that lie atthe frontier of language-acquisition research.

With a new introduction by the editor, comprehensive index, and achronological table of the gathered materials, this four-volume collectionprovides both student and scholar alike with all the key writings on languageacquisition in one convenient and authoritative reference resource.

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1. N. Chomsky, ‘Review of B. F. Skinner’s Verbal Behavior’, Language, 1959,35, 26–58.

2. N. Chomsky, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (MIT Press, 1965), pp.24–38.

3. E. M. Gold, ‘Language Identification in the Limit’, Information andControl, 1967, 10, 5, 447–74.

4. G. Marcus, ‘Negative Evidence in Language Acquisition’, Cognition,1993, 46, 53–85.

5. S. Crain, ‘Language Acquisition in the Absence of Experience’,Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1991, 14, 597–650.

6. J. Legate and C. Yang, ‘Empirical Reassessment of Stimulus PovertyArguments’, Linguistic Review, 2002, 19, 151–62.

7. P. Marler, ‘The Instinct to Learn’, in S. Carey and R. Gelman (eds.), TheEpigenesis of Mind: Essays on Biology and Cognition (Lawrence Erlbaum,1991), pp. 37–66.

8. S. Goldin-Meadow and C. Mylander, ‘Gestural Communication inDeaf Children: Noneffect of Parental Input on LanguageDevelopment’, Science, 1983, 22, 221, 372–4.

9. A. Senghas, S. Kita, and A. Ozyurek, ‘Children Creating CoreProperties of Language: Evidence from an Emerging Sign Language inNicaragua’, Science, 2004, 305, 5691, 1779–82.

10. J. Johnson and E. Newport, ‘Critical Period Effects in Second LanguageLearning: The Influence of Maturational State on the Acquisition ofEnglish as a Second Language’, Cognitive Psychology, 1989, 21, 60–99.

11. G. Sankoff and H. Blondeau, ‘Language Change Across the Lifespan:/r/ in Montreal French’, Language, 2007, 83, 3, 560–88.

12. M. Gopnik and M. Crago, ‘Familial Aggregation of a DevelopmentalLanguage Disorder’, Cognition, 1991, 39, 1–50.

13. N. Smith, I. Tsimpli, and J. Ouhala, ‘Learning the Impossible: TheAcquisition of Possible and Impossible Languages by a PolyglotSavant’, Lingua, 1993, 91, 279–347.

14. T. Nazzi, J. Bertoncini, and J. Mehler, ‘Language Discrimination byNewborns: Towards an Understanding of the Role of Rhythm’, Journalof Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1998, 24,756–66.

15. P. Eimas et al., ‘Speech Perception in Infants’, Science, 1971, 171,303–6.

16. P. Kuhl, ‘Perception of Auditory Equivalence Classes for Speech inEarly Infancy’, Infant Behavior and Development, 1983, 6, 263–85.

17. J. Werker and R. Tees, ‘Cross-Language Speech Perception: Evidence forPerceptual Reorganization During the First Year of Life’, Infant Behaviorand Development, 1984, 7, 49–63.

18. L. A. Pettito and P. Marentette, ‘Babbling in the Manual Mode:Evidence for the Ontogeny of Language’, Science, 1991, 251, 1493–6.

19. P. Jusczyk and R. Aslin, ‘Infant’s Detection of the Sound Patterns ofWords in Fluent Speech’, Cognitive Psychology, 1995, 46, 65–97.

20. J. Saffran, R. Aslin, and E. Newport, ‘Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Olds’, Science, 1996, 274, 1926–8.

21. P. Jusczyk, ‘How Infants Begin to Extract Words from Speech’, Trends inCognitive Sciences, 1999, 3, 323–8.

22. C. Yang, ‘Universal Grammar, Statistics or Both?’, Trends in CognitiveSciences, 2004, 8, 10, 451–6.

23. N. V. Smith, ‘Universal Tendencies in the Child’s Acquisition ofPhonology’, in Neil O’Connor (ed.), Language, Cognitive Deficits, andRetardation (Butterworth, 1975), pp. 47–65.

24. M. Macken, ‘Developmental Reorganization of Phonology: AHierarchy of Basic Units of Acquisition’, Lingua, 1979, 49, 11–49.

25. C. Ferguson and C. Farwell, ‘Words and Sounds in Early LanguageAcquisition’, Language, 1975, 51, 419–39.

26. J. Stemberger, ‘Speech Errors in Early Child Language Production’,Journal of Memory and Language, 1989, 28, 2, 164–88.

27. W. Labov, ‘Stages in the Acquisition of Standard English’, in R. Shuy(ed.), Social Dialects and Language Learning (National Council ofTeachers of English), pp. 77–103.

28. J. Roberts, ‘Acquisition of Variable Rules: A Study of (-t, d) Deletion inPreschool Children’, Journal of Child Language, 1997, 24, 351–72.

29. P. Kiparsky and L. Menn, ‘On the Acquisition of Phonology’, in J.MacNamara (ed.), Language Learning and Thought (Academic Press,1977), pp. 47–78.

30. E. Dresher and J. Kaye, ‘A Computational Learning Model for MetricalPhonology’, Cognition, 1990, 34, 137–95.

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31. S. Carey and E. Bartlett, ‘Acquiring a Single New Word’, Papers andReports on Child Language Development, 1978, 15, 17–29.

32. E. Markman, ‘Constraints Children Place on Word Meanings’,Cognitive Science, 1990, 14, 1, 57–77.

33. D. Baldwin, ‘Infants’ Ability to Consult the Speaker for Clues to WordReference’, Journal of Child Language, 1993, 20, 395–418.

34. E. Clark, ‘What’s in a Word? On the Child’s Acquisition of Semanticsin his First Language’, in T. Moore (ed.), Cognitive Development and theDevelopment of Language (Academic Press, 1973), pp. 65–110.

35. J. Berko, ‘The Child’s Learning of English Morphology’, Word, 1958,14, 150–77.

36. D. E. Rumelhart and J. L. McClelland, ‘On Learning the Past Tenses ofEnglish Verbs’, in J. L. McClelland et al., Parallel Distributed Processing:Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition, vol. II (MIT Press, 1986),pp. 216–71.

37. S. Pinker and M. Ullman, ‘The Past and Future of the Past Tense’,Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2002, 6, 11, 456–63.

38. A. Tyler and W. Nagy, ‘The Acquisition of English DerivationalMorphology’, Journal of Memory and Language, 1989, 28, 6, 649–67.

39. L. Gleitman, ‘The Structural Sources of Verb Meanings’, LanguageAcquisition, 1990, 1, 1–55.

40. V. Valian, ‘Syntactic Categories in the Speech of Young Children’,Developmental Psychology, 1986, 22, 4, 562–79.

41. J. Gropen et al., ‘The Learnability and Acquisition of the DativeAlternation in English’, Language, 1989, 65, 2, 203–57.

42. R. Brown, A First Language (Harvard University Press, 1973), pp. 51–8,74–100.

43. E. Shipley, C. Smith, and L. Gleitman, ‘A Study in the Acquisition ofLanguage: Free Responses to Commands’, Language, 1969, 45, 2,322–42.

44. R. Golinkoff et al., ‘The Eyes Have It: Lexical and SyntacticComprehension in a New Paradigm’, Journal of Child Language, 1987,14, 23–45.

45. S. Crain and C. McKee, ‘The Acquisition of Structural Restrictions onAnaphora’, in S. Berman, J.-W. Choe, and J. McDonough (eds.),Proceedings of NELS 15 (GLSA, 1985), pp. 94–110.

46. J. de Villiers, T. Roeper, and A. Vainikka, ‘The Acquisition of Long-Distance Rules’, in L. Frazier and J. de Villiers (eds.), LanguageProcessing and Language Acquisition (Kluwer, 1990), pp. 257–97.

47. M. T. Guasti, ‘Verb Syntax in Italian Child Grammar: Finite andNonfinite Verbs’, Language Acquisition, 1993, 3, 1, 1–40.

48. D. Poeppel and K. Wexler, ‘The Full Competence Hypothesis of ClauseStructure in Early German’, Language, 1993, 69, 1, 1–33.

49. Y. Grodzinsky and T. Reinhart, ‘The Innateness of Binding andCoreference’, Linguistic Inquiry, 1993, 24, 69–102.

50. C. Chomsky, The Acquisition of Syntax in Children from 5 to 10 (MITPress, 1969), pp. 41–61, 97–102.

51. M. Rice, K. Wexler, and P. Cleave, ‘Specific Language Impairment as aPeriod of Extended Optional Infinitive’, Journal of Speech and HearingResearch, 1995, 38, 850–63.

52. N. Hyams, ‘The Theory of Parameters and Syntactic Development’, inT. Roeper and E. Williams (eds.), Parameter Setting (Reidel, 1987), pp. 1–22.

53. V. Valian, ‘Syntactic Subjects in the Early Speech of American andItalian Children’, Cognition, 1991, 40, 21–81.

54. W. Snyder, ‘On the Nature of Syntactic Variation: Evidence fromComplex Predicates and Complex Word-Formation’, Language, 2001,77, 2, 324–42.

55. R. Berwick and P. Niyogi, ‘Learning from Triggers’, Linguistic Inquiry,1996, 27, 4, 605–22.

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