General Introduction 1

Part I Introduction to Speech Perception 13

1 Finding and Remembering Words: Some Beginnings by English-Learning Infants 19
Peter W. Jusczyk

2 Listening to Speech in the 1st Year of Life 26
Janet F. Werker and Renée N. Desjardins

3 Language Discrimination by Human Newborns and by Cotton-Top Tamarin Monkeys 34
Franck Ramus, Marc D. Hauser, Cory Miller, Dylan Morris, and Jacques Mehler

4 Infant Artificial Language Learning and Language Acquisition 42
R.L. Gómez and L.A. Gerken

5 Rapid Gains in Speed of Verbal Processing by Infants in the 2nd Year 49
Anne Fernald, John P Pinto, Daniel Swingley, Amy Weinberg, And Gerald W. Mcroberts

Part II Introduction to Word Learning 57

6 Young Children’s Appreciation of the Mental Impact of Their Communicative Signals 62
Helen I. Shwe and Ellen M. Markman

7 Lexical Development in English und Italian 76
Maria Cristina Caselli, P. Casadio, and E. Bates

8 Perceiving Intentions and Learning Words in the Second Year of Life 111
Michael Tomasello

9 Evidence Against a Dedicated System for Word Learning in Children 129
Lori Markson and Paul Bloom

10 On the Inseparability of Grammar and the Lexicon; Evidence from Acquisition 134
Elizabeth Bates and Judith C. Goodman

Part III Introduction to Grammatical Development 163

11 The Item-Based Nature of Children’s Early Syntactic Development 169
Michael Tomasello

12 Acquiring Basic Word Order: Evidence for Data-Driven Learning of Syntactic Structure 187
Nameera Akhtar

13 The Acquisition of Plural Marking in English and German Revisited: Schemata Versus Rules 203
Klaus-Michael Köpcke

14 An Exploration into Children’s Use or Passives 227
Nancy Budwig

15 Acquisition of Complementation 248
Lois Bloom, Matthew Rispoli, Barbara Gartner. And Jeremie Hafitz

16 Form Function Relations: How Do Children Find Out What They Are? 267
Dan I. Slobin

Part IV Brains, Genes, and Computation in Language Development 291

17 Connectionism and Language Acquisition 295
Jeffrey L. Elman

18 Neural Correlates of Early Language Learning 307
Barbara Clancy and Barbara Finlay

19 Development Itself Is the Key to Understanding Developmental Disorders 331
Annette Karmiloff-Smith

Index 351