The Acquisition of Reference.

The Acquisition of Reference -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- 1. Introduction: An overview of the acquisition of reference -- 1. Why reference? -- 2. A historical approach to argument realization in child language -- 3. Discourse-relevant influences on children's referential choice -- 4. Child-related influences on referential choice -- 5. Looking to the future -- References -- 2. The acquisition of nominal determiners: Evidence from cross-linguistic approaches -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The emergence of determiners: Cross-linguistic evidence of determiner use -- 3. Prosodic and morpho-phonological influences on determiner emergence -- 4. Lexical-semantic and discourse influences -- 5. Input influences: The relations between child speech and child-directed speech -- 6. The development of the determiner systems -- 7. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 3. Mapping information structure and word order: The acquisition of object placement -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Three types of object displacement phenomena -- 3. The acquisition of object placement -- 4. General discussion -- 5. Concluding remarks and future prospects -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 4. Children's use of intonation in reference and the role of input -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Relevant theoretical distinctions -- 3. Adults' use of intonation in reference -- 4. Children's use of intonation in reference -- 5. Intonation in reference in infant-directed speech -- 6. Conclusions and future research -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 5. The role of gesture in referential communication: A developmental perspective -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Pre-linguistic stage -- 3. One-word stage -- 4. Two-word stage -- 5. Later preschool stage -- 6. Middle childhood -- 7. Conclusion and future directions -- Acknowledgements -- References.

6. The role of cognitive accessibility in children's referential choice -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Studies on children's sensitivity to accessibility in referential choice -- 3. Developmental patterns -- 4. Interplay between accessibility factors -- 5. Additional influences on children's referential choice with relation to accessibility -- 6. Explanations for sensitivity to accessibility -- 7. Conclusion and future directions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 7. Acquisition and use of pronouns in a dialogic perspective -- 1. Introduction -- 2. First and second person pronouns in dialogue -- 3. Third person pronouns in dialogue -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 8. From early to late mastery of reference: Multifunctionality and linguistic diversity -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Form-function systems across languages -- 3. Early phases of child language -- 4. Later phases of child language -- 5. Crosslinguistic variation in development -- 6. Discussion and concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 9. Online evidence for children's interpretation of personal pronouns -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The rationale for using the VWP to study pronoun interpretation in children -- 3. Reflexives and pronouns in language acquisition research: Theoretical questions -- 4. Studies of children's online interpretation of anaphoric expressions -- 5. Closing remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 10. Children's sensitivity to caregiver cues and the role of adult feedback in the development of re -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Referential adjustment to communicative partners: Verbal and non-verbal devices -- 3. Mentoring children's referential skills: Training studies -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- 11. The cognitive underpinnings of referential abilities -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Adults' referential abilities.

3. Prerequisites to the encoding of reference -- 4. Cognitive development -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 12. Production and comprehension of pronouns and reflexives in atypical populations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Acquisition of pronouns and reflexives in typically-developing children -- 3. Acquisition of pronouns and reflexives in atypical populations -- 4. Conclusions and future directions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 13. Referential expressions in bilingual acquisition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Evidence for separate development in bilinguals' grammar -- 3. Language-specific use of pronominal subjects -- 4. CLI effects in pronominal argument realization: The case of subjects -- 5. How likely is CLI? -- 6. Rationale for the directionality of CLI -- 7. The role of language exposure, language dominance and input quality in the use of referential exp -- 8. Older bilingual children: Experimental evidence for the comprehension and production of referenti -- 9. CLI and direct object pronouns -- 10. Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Language index -- Subject index.

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