Approaches to Bootstrapping- Phonological, lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects of early language acquisition -Volume 1

Volume 1 of Approaches to Bootstrapping focuses on early word learning and syntactic development with special emphasis on the bootstrapping mechanisms by which the child using properties of the speech input enters the native linguistic system. Topics discussed in the area of lexical acquisition are: cues and mechanisms for isolating words in the input; special features of motherese and their role for early word learning; the determination of first word meanings; memory and related processing capacities in early word learning and understanding; and lexical representation and lexical access in early language production.
The papers on syntactic development deal with the acquisition of grammatical prosodic features for learning language specific syntactic regularities.

 

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Table of contents

 

Introduction Jьrgen Weissenborn and Barbara Hцhle	vii
Part I: Early Word Learning and its Prerequisites	1
Bootstrapping from the Signal: Some Further Directions Peter W. Jusczyk	3–23
Contributions of Prosody to Infants’ Segmentation and Representation of Speech Catharine H. Echols	25–46
Implicit Memory Support for Language Acquisition Cynthia Fisher and Barbara A. Church	47–69
How Accessible is the Lexicon in Motherese? Nan Bernstein Ratner and Becky Rooney	71–78
Bootstrapping a First Vocabulary Lila Gleitman and Henry Gleitman	79–96
Infants’ Developing Competence in Recognizing and Understanding Words in Fluent Speech Anne Fernald, Gerald W. McRoberts and Daniel Swingley	97–123
Lemma Structure in Language Learning: Comments on Representation and Realization Cecile McKee and Noriko Iwasaki	125–144
Part II: From Input Cues to Syntactic Knowledge	145
Signal to Syntax: Building a Bridge LouAnn Gerken	147–165
A Reappraisal of Young Children’s Knowledge of Grammatical Morphemes Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Melissa A. Schweisguth	167–188
Predicting Grammatical Classes from Phonological Cues: An Empirical Test Gert Durieux and Steven Gillis	189–229
Pre-lexical Setting of the Head: Complement Parameter through Prosody Maria Teresa Guasti, Marina Nespor, Anne Christophe and Brit van Ooyen	231–248
Discovering Word Order Regularities: The Role of Prosodic Information for Early Parameter Setting Barbara Hцhle, Jьrgen Weissenborn, Michaela Schmitz and Anja Ischebeck	249–265
On the Prosody/Lexicon Interface in Learning Word Order: A Study of Normally Developing and Language Impaired Children Zvi Penner, Karin Wymann and Jьrgen Weissenborn	267–293
Index	295