A Reappraisal of Young Children’s Knowledge of Grammatical Morphemes

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Part I
5. Bootstrapping from the Signal 3
6. Contributions of Prosody to Infants’ Segmentation and Representation of Speech 25
7. Implicit Memory Support for Language Acquisition 47
8. How Accessible is the Lexicon in Motherese? 71
9. Bootstrapping a First Vocabulary 79
10. Infants’ Developing Competence in Recognizing and Understanding Words in Fluent Speech 97
11. Lemma Structure in Language Learning 125
12. Part II
13. Signal to Syntax 147
14. A Reappraisal of Young Children’s Knowledge of Grammatical Morphemes 167
15. Predicting Grammatical Classes from Phonological Cues 189
16. Pre-lexical Setting of the Head 231
17. Discovering Word Order Regularities 249
18. On the Prosody/Lexicon Interface in Learning Word Order 267
19. Index 295