Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. List of contributors ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Extracting regularities
7. Toward a theory of gradual morphosyntactic learning 15
8. Cues to form and function in the acquisition of German number and case inflection 35
9. Developing first contrasts in Spanish verb inflection 53
10. Part II. Multiple cues in learning to communicate
11. A new look at redundancy in children's gesture and word combinations 75
12. Learning the meaning of “ um ” 91
13. Part III. Discovering units
14. From first words to segments 109
15. Analysis and generalization across verbs and constructions 135
16. Two- and three-year-olds' linguistic generalizations are prudent adaptations to the language they hear 153
17. Units of learning in language acquisition 167
18. Part IV. Individual differences
19. Causes and consequences of variability in early language learning 181
20. Individual differences in measures of linguistic experience account for variability in the sentence processing skill of five-year-olds 203
21. Genetic variation and individual differences in language 223
22. Part V. Mechanisms for learning
23. Language as a process 241
24. Memory, sleep and generalization in language acquisition 261
25. Bayesian modeling of sources of constraint in language acquisition 277
26. Index 295