Investigations in Universal Grammar: A Guide to Experiments on the Acquisition of Syntax and Semantics Book

	Acknowledgments
Pt. I	The Modularity Matching Model	1
Ch. 1	Introduction	3
Ch. 2	Constraints and Universal Grammar	9
Ch. 3	The Poverty of the Stimulus	19
Ch. 4	Models of Language Development	29
Ch. 5	Continuity versus Input Matching	37
Ch. 6	The Competing Factors Model	45
Ch. 7	Competing Tasks: Reaction Time Studies	55
Ch. 8	Competing Tasks: The Act-Out Task	67
Ch. 9	Competing Tasks: Imitation	71
Ch. 10	Judgment Tasks and Competing Factors	79
Ch. 11	Context and Competing Factors	87
Ch. 12	Language Processing	97
Ch. 13	Extralinguistic Knowledge	103
Ch. 14	When Principles and Preferences Collide	115
Ch. 15	Performance Errors	121
Ch. 16	Methodological Preliminaries	129
Pt. II	The Elicited Production Task	139
Ch. 17	Elicited Production	141
Ch. 18	Eliciting Relative Clauses	151
Ch. 19	Asking Questions: The "Ask/Tell" Problem	163
Ch. 20	Structure-Dependence	165
Ch. 21	Wanna Contraction	177
Ch. 22	Long-Distance Questions and the Medial-Wh	187
Ch. 23	Why Children Make Good Subjects	199
Ch. 24	Summary of Designs	203
Pt. III	The Truth Value Judgment Task	207
Ch. 25	Truth Value Judgments	209
Ch. 26	Backward Anaphora	215
Ch. 27	Fundamentals of Design: Principle C	221
Ch. 28	What's Wrong with This Picture?	239
Ch. 29	Strong Crossover	247
Ch. 30	Strongest Crossover	257
Ch. 31	Principle B	265
Ch. 32	Following Up on Principle B	271
Ch. 33	Sets and Circumstances	275
Ch. 34	Discourse Binding	283
Ch. 35	Universal Quantification	293
Ch. 36	Donkey Sentences	303
Ch. 37	A Potential Drawback of the Task	307
Ch. 38	Resolving the Dilemma: Control Sentences	311
Ch. 39	Resolving the Dilemma: Varying the Context	315
Ch. 40	Conclusion	319
	Notes	321
	References	331
	Index	339