Michael Tomasello is Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. His previous publications include Primate Cognition (1997), The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure (1998) and The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (1999).
Acknowledgments vii
General Introduction 1
Part I Introduction to Speech Perception 13
1 Finding and Remembering Words: Some Beginnings by English-Learning Infants 19
Peter W. Jusczyk
2 Listening to Speech in the 1st Year of Life 26
Janet F. Werker and Renee N. Desjardins
3 Language Discrimination by Human Newborns and by Cotton-Top Tamarin Monkeys 34
Franck Ramus, Marc D. Hauser, Cory Miller, Dylan Morris, and Jacques Mehler
4 Infant Artificial Language Learning and Language Acquisition 42
R.L. Gomez and L.A. Gerken
5 Rapid Gains in Speed of Verbal Processing by Infants in the 2nd Year 49
Anne Fernald, John P Pinto, Daniel Swingley, Amy Weinberg, And Gerald W. Mcroberts
Part II Introduction to Word Learning 57
6 Young Children's Appreciation of the Mental Impact of Their Communicative Signals 62
Helen I. Shwe and Ellen M. Markman
7 Lexical Development in English und Italian 76
Maria Cristina Caselli, P. Casadio, and E. Bates
8 Perceiving Intentions and Learning Words in the Second Year of Life 111
Michael Tomasello
9 Evidence Against a Dedicated System for Word Learning in Children 129
Lori Markson and Paul Bloom
10 On the Inseparability of Grammar and the Lexicon; Evidence from Acquisition 134
Elizabeth Bates and Judith C. Goodman
Part III Introduction to Grammatical Development 163
11 The Item-Based Nature of Children's Early Syntactic Development 169
Michael Tomasello
12 Acquiring Basic Word Order: Evidence for Data-Driven Learning of Syntactic Structure 187
Nameera Akhtar
13 The Acquisition of Plural Marking in English and German Revisited: Schemata Versus Rules 203
Klaus-Michael Koepcke
14 An Exploration into Children's Use or Passives 227
Nancy Budwig
15 Acquisition of Complementation 248
Lois Bloom, Matthew Rispoli, Barbara Gartner. And Jeremie Hafitz
16 Form Function Relations: How Do Children Find Out What They Are? 267
Dan I. Slobin
Part IV Brains, Genes, and Computation in Language Development 291
17 Connectionism and Language Acquisition 295
Jeffrey L. Elman
18 Neural Correlates of Early Language Learning 307
Barbara Clancy and Barbara Finlay
19 Development Itself Is the Key to Understanding Developmental Disorders 331
Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Index 351