Early Language Development: Bridging brain and behaviour (Trends in Language Acquisition Research)

The present volume is the fifth in the series ‘Trends in Language Acquisition Research’ (TiLAR). As an official publication of the International Association for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), the TiLAR Series publishes two volumes per three year period in between IASCL congresses. All volumes in the IASCL-TiLAR Series are invited edited volumes by IASCL members that are strongly thematic in nature and that present cutting edge work which is likely to stimulate further research to the fullest extent.

Table of contents

 

List of Contributors	vii–viii
Preface	ix–x
Introduction to early language development: Bridging brain and behavior Guillaume Thierry and Angela D. Friederici	xi–xiv
1. The method of event-related brain potentials in the study of cognitive processes: A tutorial Claudia Mдnnel	1–22
2. Event-related potential studies of early language processing at the phoneme, word, and sentence levels Barbara T. Conboy, Maritza Rivera-Gaxiola, Juan Silva-Pereyra and Patricia K. Kuhl	23–64
3. Behavioral and electrophysiological exploration of early word segmentation in French: Distinguishing the syllabic and lexical levels. Thierry Nazzi, Galina Iakimova, Josiane Bertoncini, Sylvain Mottet, Josette Serres and Scania de Schonen	65–89
4. Reflections on reflections of infant word recognition Valesca Kooijman, Elizabeth K. Johnson and Anne Cutler	91–114
5. The onset of word form recognition: A behavioural and neurophysiological study Guillaume Thierry and Marilyn May Vihman	115–135
6. Neurophysiological correlates of picture-word priming in one-year-olds Manuela Friedrich	137–160
7. The effects of early word learning on brain development Elizabeth A. Sheehan and Debra L. Mills	161–190
8. From perception to grammar Jacques Mehler, Ansgar Endress, Judit Gervain and Marina Nespor	191–213
9. The development of syntactic brain correlates during the first years of life Angela D. Friederici and Regine Oberecker	215–231
10. Language acquisition and ERP approaches: Prospects and challenges David Poeppel and Akira Omaki	233–255
Glossary	257–260
Index	261–263