Prelim pages

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of authors (alphabetical) vii
4. Introduction. What can variation tell us about first language acquisition? 1
5. Part I. Universals and cross-linguistic variation in acquisition
6. Chapter 1. Templates in child language 27
7. Chapter 2. Phonological categories and their manifestation in child phonology 45
8. Chapter 3. Bootstrapping lexical and syntactic acquisition 63
9. Chapter 4. Retrieving meaning from noun and verb grammatical contexts 81
10. Chapter 5. Language-specificity in motion expression 103
11. Chapter 6. Cross-linguistic variation in children’s multimodal utterances 123
12. Chapter 7. Gesture and speech in adults’ and children’s narratives 139
13. Part II. Variation in input and contexts during acquisition
14. Chapter 8. Conversational partners and common ground 163
15. Chapter 9. Invariance in variation 183
16. Chapter 10. New perspectives on input-output dynamics 201
17. Chapter 11. Referential features, speech genres and activity types 219
18. Chapter 12. Development of discourse competence 243
19. Chapter 13. Texting by 12-year-olds 265
20. Part III. Variation in types of acquisition and types of learners
21. Chapter 14. A unified model of first and second language learning 287
22. Chapter 15. Online sentence processing in simultaneous French/Swedish bilinguals 313
23. Chapter 16. The blossoming of negation in gesture, sign and oral productions 339
24. Chapter 17. Motion expression in children’s acquisition of French Sign Language 365
25. Chapter 18. Early predictors of language development in Autism Spectrum Disorder 391
26. Chapter 19. Spoken and written narratives from French- and English-speaking children with Language Impairment\ 409
27. Chapter 20. Non-literal language comprehension 427
28. Language index 439
29. Subject index 440