Child Language

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright © 1996......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
1 Child Language Development: A Connectionist Simulation of the Evolving Concept Memory......Page 10
2 Representation Issues in Child Language Corpora......Page 24
3 Arbitrary and Topographic Space in Sign Language Development......Page 37
4 Do Cross-Sentential Cues to Phrase Structure Facilitate the Acquisition of Syntax?......Page 49
5 Preverbal Communication in Young Children with Down\'s Syndrome: The Use of Pointing and Other Gestures......Page 61
6 Negative Feedback in Language Addressed to Hearing-impaired Children......Page 74
7 Negation and Truncated Structures......Page 81
8 Verb Complementation in Language Impaired School Age Children......Page 93
9 Acquisition of Negative Polarity Items......Page 101
10 What Factors Predict a Child\'s Language in a Bilingual Environment?......Page 112
11 The Nature of Children\'s Initial Clauses......Page 121
12 Children\'s Attributions of Speakers\' Pragmatic Intentions......Page 158
13 The Effectiveness of Therapy for Child Phonological Disorder: The Metaphon Approach......Page 174
14 Functional Category Cueing......Page 185
15 Language Modularity and Grammatical Specific Language Impairment in Children......Page 197
16 Talking about Reading Strategies with Poor Readers: A Way of Increasing Student Control of the Learning Situation......Page 211
17 The Acquisition of English by a Japanese-speaking Child: The Sibilant-sound Attachment as an Influence of Japanese......Page 221