From the Book - 1st MIT Press ed.
Preface : language acquisitions / Paul Bloom
Overview : controversies in language acquisition / Paul Bloom
Human maternal vocalizations to infants as biologically relevant signals : an evolutionary perspective / Anne Fernald
Modularity and constraints in early lexical acquisition : evidence from children's early language and gesture / Laura Ann Petitto
Infant contributions to the achievement of joint reference / Dare A. Baldwin
Constraints children place on word meanings / Ellen M. Markman
The structural sources of verb meanings / Lila Gleitman
Early word meanings : the case of object names / Janellen Huttenlocher and Patricia Smiley
The notion of source in language acquisition / Eve V. Clark and Kathie L. Carpenter
Affectedness and direct objects : the role of lexical semantics in the acquisition of verb argument structure / Jess Gropen ... [et al.].
Learning a semantic system : what role do cognitive predispositions play? / Melissa Bowerman
Language acquisition in the absence of experience / Stephen Crain
Language growth with experience without feedback / Richard F. Cromer
On learning the past tenses of English verbs / D.E. Rumelhart and J.L. McClelland
Rules of language / Steven Pinker
Level-ordering in lexical development / Peter Gordon
Beyond the input given : the child's role in the acquisition of language / Susan Goldin-Meadow and Carolyn Mylander
Maturational constraints on language learning / Elissa L. Newport
Innate constraints and developmental change / Annette Karmiloff-Smith
The instinct to learn / Peter Marler.
