Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Part 1. Levels of acquisition
6. Learning how to communicate in infancy 11
7. Heads, shoulders, knees and toes 39
8. Insights from studying statistical learning 65
9. From grammatical categories to processes of categorization 91
10. The retreat from transitive-causative overgeneralization errors 113
11. Where form meets meaning in the acquisition of grammatical constructions 131
12. Social cognitive and later language acquisition 155
13. Part 2. Levels of variation
14. The emergence of gesture during prelinguistic interaction 173
15. Individual differences in first language acquisition and their theoretical implications 189
16. Understanding the cross-linguistic pattern of verb-marking error in typically developing children and children with Developmental Language Disorder 221
17. Sampling linguistic diversity to understand language development 247
18. Lessons from studying language development in bilingual children 263
19. Language disorders and autism 287
20. Index 323