Language Development: The Essential Readings Book

	Acknowledgments
	General Introduction	1
Pt. I	Introduction to Speech Perception	13
1	Finding and Remembering Words: Some Beginnings by English-Learning Infants	19
2	Listening to Speech in the 1st Year of Life	26
3	Language Discrimination by Human Newborns and by Cotton-Top Tamarin Monkeys	34
4	Infant Artificial Language Learning and Language Acquisition	42
5	Rapid Gains in Speed of Verbal Processing by Infants in the 2nd Year	49
Pt. II	Introduction to Word Learning	57
6	Young Children's Appreciation of the Mental Impact of Their Communicative Signals	62
7	Lexical Development in English and Italian	76
8	Perceiving Intentions and Learning Words in the Second Year of Life	111
9	Evidence Against a Dedicated System for Word Learning in Children	129
10	On the Inseparability of Grammar and the Lexicon: Evidence from Acquisition	134
Pt. III	Introduction to Grammatical Development	163
11	The Item-Based Nature of Children's Early Syntactic Development	169
12	Acquiring Basic Word Order: Evidence for Data-Driven Learning of Syntactic Structure	187
13	The Acquisition of Plural Marking in English and German Revisited: Schemata Versus Rules	203
14	An Exploration into Children's Use of Passives	227
15	Acquisition of Complementation	248
16	Form/Function Relations: How Do Children Find Out What They Are?	267
Pt. IV	Brains, Genes, and Computation in Language Development	291
17	Connectionism and Language Acquisition	295
18	Neural Correlates of Early Language Learning	307
19	Development Itself Is the Key to Understanding Developmental Disorders	331
	Index	351