Language Acquisition, (4 Volume Set)

This new addition to Routledge’s Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Linguistics, brings together the very best and most influential scholarly research in over half a century of language-acquisition research. The collection represents and reflects the interdisciplinary nature of the field, by highlighting models and methodologies from—and implications for—adjacent fields such as psycholinguistics, developmental psychology, computer science, and comparative cognition. In addition, the collection steers users to the most important, as well as controversial, issues that lie at the frontier of language acquisition research.

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

Volume I : Foundations

Chapter 1 : N. Chomsky, ‘Review of B. F. Skinner’s Verbal Behavior’, Language, 1959
Chapter 2 : N. Chomsky, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax (MIT Press, 1965)
Chapter 3 : E. M. Gold, ‘Language Identification in the Limit’, Information and Control, 1967
Chapter 4 : G. Marcus, ‘Negative Evidence in Language Acquisition’, Cognition, 1993
Chapter 5 : S. Crain, ‘Language Acquisition in the Absence of Experience’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 1991
Chapter 6 : J. Legate and C. Yang, ‘Empirical Reassessment of Stimulus Poverty Arguments’, Linguistic Review, 2002
Chapter 7 : P. Marler, ‘The Instinct to Learn’, in S. Carey and R. Gelman (eds.), The Epigenesis of Mind: Essays on Biology and Cognition
Chapter 8 : S. Goldin-Meadow and C. Mylander, ‘Gestural Communication in Deaf Children: Noneffect of Parental Input on Language Development’, Science, 1983
Chapter 9 : A. Senghas, S. Kita, and A. Ozyurek, ‘Children Creating Core Properties of Language: Evidence from an Emerging Sign Language in Nicaragua’, Science, 2004
Chapter 10 : J. Johnson and E. Newport, ‘Critical Period Effects in Second Language Learning: The Influence of Maturational State on the Acquisition of English as a Second Language’, Cognitive Psychology, 1989
Chapter 11 : G. Sankoff and H. Blondeau, ‘Language Change Across the Lifespan: /r/ in Montreal French’, Language, 2007
Chapter 12 : M. Gopnik and M. Crago, ‘Familial Aggregation of a Developmental Language Disorder’, Cognition, 1991
Chapter 13 : N. Smith, I. Tsimpli, and J. Ouhala, ‘Learning the Impossible: The Acquisition of Possible and Impossible Languages by a Polyglot Savant’, Lingua, 1993

Volume II : Speech

Chapter 14 : T. Nazzi, J. Bertoncini, and J. Mehler, ‘Language Discrimination by Newborns: Towards an Understanding of the Role of Rhythm’, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1998
Chapter 15 : P. Eimas et al., ‘Speech Perception in Infants’, Science, 1971
Chapter 16 : P. Kuhl, ‘Perception of Auditory Equivalence Classes for Speech in Early Infancy’, Infant Behavior and Development, 1983
Chapter 17 : J. Werker and R. Tees, ‘Cross-Language Speech Perception: Evidence for Perceptual Reorganization During the First Year of Life’, Infant Behavior and Development, 1984
Chapter 18 : L. A. Pettito and P. Marentette, ‘Babbling in the Manual Mode: Evidence for the Ontogeny of Language’, Science, 1991
Chapter 19 : P. Jusczyk and R. Aslin, ‘Infant’s Detection of the Sound Patterns of Words in Fluent Speech’, Cognitive Psychology, 1995
Chapter 20 : J. Saffran, R. Aslin, and E. Newport, ‘Statistical Learning by 8-Month-Olds’, Science, 1996
Chapter 21 : P. Jusczyk, ‘How Infants Begin to Extract Words from Speech’, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1999
Chapter 22 : C. Yang, ‘Universal Grammar, Statistics or Both?’, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2004
Chapter 23 : N. V. Smith, ‘Universal Tendencies in the Child’s Acquisition of Phonology’, in Neil O’Connor (ed.), Language, Cognitive Deficits, and Retardation
Chapter 24 : M. Macken, ‘Developmental Reorganization of Phonology: A Hierarchy of Basic Units of Acquisition’, Lingua, 1979
Chapter 25 : C. Ferguson and C. Farwell, ‘Words and Sounds in Early Language Acquisition’, Language, 1975
Chapter 26 : J. Stemberger, ‘Speech Errors in Early Child Language Production’, Journal of Memory and Language, 1989
Chapter 27 : W. Labov, ‘Stages in the Acquisition of Standard English’, in R. Shuy (ed.), Social Dialects and Language Learning
Chapter 28 : J. Roberts, ‘Acquisition of Variable Rules: A Study of (-t, d) Deletion in Preschool Children’, Journal of Child Language, 1997
Chapter 29 : P. Kiparsky and L. Menn, ‘On the Acquisition of Phonology’, in J. MacNamara (ed.), Language Learning and Thought
Chapter 30 : E. Dresher and J. Kaye, ‘A Computational Learning Model for Metrical Phonology’, Cognition, 1990

Volume III : Words

Chapter 31 : S. Carey and E. Bartlett, ‘Acquiring a Single New Word’, Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 1978
Chapter 32 : E. Markman, ‘Constraints Children Place on Word Meanings’, Cognitive Science, 1990
Chapter 33 : D. Baldwin, ‘Infants’ Ability to Consult the Speaker for Clues to Word Reference’, Journal of Child Language, 1993
Chapter 34 : E. Clark, ‘What’s in a Word? On the Child’s Acquisition of Semantics in his First Language’, in T. Moore (ed.), Cognitive Development and the Development of Language
Chapter 35 : J. Berko, ‘The Child’s Learning of English Morphology’, Word, 1958
Chapter 36 : D. E. Rumelhart and J. L. McClelland, ‘On Learning the Past Tenses of English Verbs’, in J. L. McClelland et al., Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition, vol. II
Chapter 37 : S. Pinker and M. Ullman, ‘The Past and Future of the Past Tense’, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2002
Chapter 38 : A. Tyler and W. Nagy, ‘The Acquisition of English Derivational Morphology’, Journal of Memory and Language, 1989
Chapter 39 : L. Gleitman, ‘The Structural Sources of Verb Meanings’, Language Acquisition, 1990
Chapter 40 : V. Valian, ‘Syntactic Categories in the Speech of Young Children’, Developmental Psychology, 1986
Chapter 41 : J. Gropen et al., ‘The Learnability and Acquisition of the Dative Alternation in English’, Language, 1989

Volume IV : Structures

Chapter 42 : R. Brown, A First Language
Chapter 43 : E. Shipley, C. Smith, and L. Gleitman, ‘A Study in the Acquisition of Language: Free Responses to Commands’, Language, 1969
Chapter 44 : R. Golinkoff et al., ‘The Eyes Have It: Lexical and Syntactic Comprehension in a New Paradigm’, Journal of Child Language, 1987
Chapter 45 : S. Crain and C. McKee, ‘The Acquisition of Structural Restrictions on Anaphora’, in S. Berman, J.-W. Choe, and J. McDonough (eds.), Proceedings of NELS 15 (GLSA, 1985)
Chapter 46 : J. de Villiers, T. Roeper, and A. Vainikka, ‘The Acquisition of Long-Distance Rules’, in L. Frazier and J. de Villiers (eds.), Language Processing and Language Acquisition (Kluwer, 1990)
Chapter 47 : M. T. Guasti, ‘Verb Syntax in Italian Child Grammar: Finite and Nonfinite Verbs’, Language Acquisition, 1993
Chapter 48 : D. Poeppel and K. Wexler, ‘The Full Competence Hypothesis of Clause Structure in Early German’, Language, 1993
Chapter 49 : Y. Grodzinsky and T. Reinhart, ‘The Innateness of Binding and Coreference’, Linguistic Inquiry, 1993
Chapter 50 : C. Chomsky, The Acquisition of Syntax in Children from 5 to 10
Chapter 51 : M. Rice, K. Wexler, and P. Cleave, ‘Specific Language Impairment as a Period of Extended Optional Infinitive’, Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 1995
Chapter 52 : N. Hyams, ‘The Theory of Parameters and Syntactic Development’, in T. Roeper and E. Williams (eds.), Parameter Setting
Chapter 53 : V. Valian, ‘Syntactic Subjects in the Early Speech of American and Italian Children’, Cognition, 1991
Chapter 54 : W. Snyder, ‘On the Nature of Syntactic Variation: Evidence from Complex Predicates and Complex Word-Formation’, Language, 2001
Chapter 55 : R. Berwick and P. Niyogi, ‘Learning from Triggers’, Linguistic Inquiry, 1996