1st Edition

Children's Language Volume 11: Interactional Contributions To Language Development

Edited By Keith E. Nelson, Ayhan Aksu-Ko‡ Copyright 2001
262 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages
by Routledge

These volumes present coherent sets of papers developed along two of the thematic lines that underscored the program of the meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child Language in Istanbul in the summer of 1996. Thoroughly reviewed and updated to reflect the state of child language research and theory--particularly in the domains of discourse and interaction--they convey not... Read more
Contents: A. Aksu-Koç, C.E. Johnson, K.E. Nelson, Preface. M. Aparici, E. Serrat, M. Capdevila, M. Serra, Acquisition of Complex Sentences in Spanish- and Catalan-Speaking Children. M. Almgren, A. Barrena, Bilingual Acquisition and Separation of Linguistic Codes: Ergativity in Basque Versus Accusativity in Spanish. N. Budwig, S. Stein, C. O'Brien, Non-Agent Subjects in Early Child Language: A Crosslinguistic Comparison. A.T. Perez-Leroux, Subjunctive Mood in Spanish Child Relatives: At the Interface of Linguistic and Cognitive Development. C. Day, A Developmental Perspective on Modal Verb Use by French-Speaking Children. K. Nelson, J. Welsh, S. Camarata, T. Tjus, A Rare Event Transactional Model of Tricky Mix Conditions Contributing to Language Acquisition and Varied Communicative Delays. S.M. Suzman, Contrast, the No-Blur Principle, and the Acquisition of Zulu. P. Zukow-Goldring, Perceiving Referring Actions: Latino and Euro-American Infants and Caregivers Comprehending Speech. A. Peltzer-Karpf, R. Zangl, Figure-Ground Segregation in Visual and Linguistic Development: A Dynamic Systems Account. K.E. Nelson, A. Aksu-Koç, C.E. Johnson, Commentaries.

Biography

Nelson, Keith E.; Aksu-Ko‡, Ayhan