Oxford handbook of developmental linguistics / edited by Jeffrey Lidz, William Snyder, and Joe Pater.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 817-961) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction / Joe Pater -- pt. I THE ACQUISITION OF SOUND SYSTEMS -- 2. The Acquisition of Phonological Inventories / William Idsardi -- 3. Phonotactics and Syllable Structure in Infant Speech Perception / Viktor Kharlamov -- 4. Phonological Processes in Children's Productions: Convergence with and Divergence from Adult Grammars / Heather Goad -- 5. Prosodic Phenomena: Stress, Tone, and Intonation / Mitsuhiko Ota -- pt. II THE ACQUISITION OF MORPHOLOGY -- 6. Compound Word Formation / William Snyder -- 7. Morpho-phonological Acquisition / Anne-Michelle Tessier -- 8. Processing Continuous Speech in Infancy: From Major Prosodic Units to Isolated Word Forms / Thierry Nazzi -- pt. III THE ACQUISITION OF SYNTAX -- 9. Argument Structure / Ann Bunger -- 10. Voice Alternations (Active, Passive, Middle) / Maria Teresa Guasti -- 11. On the Acquisition of Prepositions and Particles / Koji Sugisaki -- 12. A-Movement in Language Development / Susannah Kirby -- 13. The Acquisition of Complements / Tom Roeper -- 14. Acquisition of Questions / Rosalind Thornton -- 15. Root Infinitives in Child Language and the Structure of the Clause / John Grinstead -- 16. Mood Alternations / Kamil Ud Deen -- 17. Null Subjects / Virginia Valian -- 18. Case and Agreement / Paul Hagstrom -- 19. Acquiring Possessives / Theodoros Marinis -- pt. IV THE ACQUISITION OF SEMANTICS -- 20. Acquisition of Comparative and Degree Constructions / Kristen Syrett -- 21. Quantification in Child Language / Jeffrey Lidz -- 22. The Acquisition of Binding and Coreference / Sergio Baauw -- 23. Logical Connectives / Takuya Goro -- 24. The Expression of Genericity in Child Language / Ana T. Perez-Leroux -- 25. Lexical and Grammatical Aspect / Angeliek van Hout -- 26. Scalar Implicature / Dimitrios Skordos -- pt. V THEORIES OF LEARNING -- 27. Computational Theories of Learning and Developmental Psycholinguistics / Jeffrey Heinz -- 28. Statistical Learning, Inductive Bias, and Bayesian Inference in Language Acquisition / Sharon Goldwater -- 29. Computational Approaches to Parameter Setting in Generative Linguistics / William Gregory Sakas -- 30. Learning with Violable Constraints / Gaja Jarosz -- pt. VI ATYPICAL POPULATIONS -- 31. Language Development in Children with Developmental Disorders / Andrea Zukowski -- 32. The Genetics of Spoken Language / Jennifer Ganger -- 33. Phonological Disorders: Theoretical and Experimental Findings / Judith A. Gierut.

In this handbook, renowned scholars from a range of backgrounds provide a state of the art review of key developmental findings in language acquisition. The book places language acquisition phenomena in a richly linguistic and comparative context, highlighting the link between linguistic theory, language development, and theories of learning. The book is divided into six parts. Parts I and II examine the acquisition of phonology and morphology respectively, with chapters covering topics such as phonotactics and syllable structure, prosodic phenomena, compound word formation, and processing continuous speech. Part III moves on to the acquisition of syntax, including argument structure, questions, mood alternations, and possessives. In Part IV, chapters consider semantic aspects of language acquisition, including the expression of genericity, quantification, and scalar implicature. Finally, Parts V and VI look at theories of learning and aspects of atypical language development respectively.