Sources of Variation in First Language Acquisition : Languages, Contexts, and Learners.

Intro -- Sources of Variation in First Language Acquisition -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- List of contributors -- Introduction. What can variation tell us about first language acquisition? -- 1. Why variation in language acquisition? -- 2. Factors and types of variation -- 3. The organization of this volume -- 4. Concluding remarks and future perspectives -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part I. Universals and cross-linguistic variation in acquisition -- Chapter 1. Templates in child language -- Introduction -- 1. Templates -- 2. Evidence -- 3. The template as a response to challenges -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix 1a. VCV with vowel melody -- Appendix 1b. VCV with no vowel melody -- Chapter 2. Phonological categories and their manifestation in child phonology -- Introduction -- 1. Background -- 2. Case study -- 3. Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 3. Bootstrapping lexical and syntactic acquisition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Phrasal prosody constrains on-line syntactic analysis -- 3. Function words signal the syntactic category of the following content words -- 4. Building a syntactic skeleton with phrasal prosody and function words -- 5. Conclusions and perspectives -- References -- Chapter 4. Retrieving meaning from noun and verb grammatical contexts: Interindividual variation among 2- to 4-year-old French-speaking children -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- References -- Appendix 1. Examples of screen display for the items presented to the children -- Chapter 5. Language-specificity in motion expression: Early acquisition in Korean compared to French and English -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Grammatical characteristics of motion event expression in Korean -- 3. The present study -- 4. Data and analysis -- 5. Results -- 6. Summary and discussion.

Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 6. Cross-linguistic variation in children's multimodal utterances -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Gesture and language development: General milestones -- 3. Cross-linguistic variation in adult multimodal utterances -- 4. Cross-linguistic variation in children's multimodal utterances -- 5. Conclusions -- References -- Chapter 7. Gesture and speech in adults' and children's narratives: A cross-linguistic investigation of Zulu and French -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendices -- Part II. Variation in input and contexts during acquisition -- Chapter 8. Conversational partners and common ground: Variation contributes to language acquisition -- How much interactive language are children exposed to early on? -- Consequences of differences in amount of interaction -- Common ground -- Conversational partners -- Common ground for adult and child -- Adding conversational partners -- How do speakers establish a starting point? -- How do speakers add new information to existing common ground? -- Assessing what the other knows -- Linguistic devices for signaling given and new -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 9. Invariance in variation: Frequency and neighbourhood density as predictors of vocabulary size -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Theoretical background -- 3. Method -- 4. Results -- 5. Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 10. New perspectives on input-output dynamics: Example from the emergence of the Noun category -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Data and coding -- 3. Initial analyses: Frequencies of the noun constructions in the three corpora -- 4. The mathematical model -- 5. Modeling analyses: Relations between child speech and CDS in the three corpora -- 6. Conclusion -- References -- Appendix.

Chapter 11. Referential features, speech genres and activity types -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Referring expressions in a French corpus -- 3. Referring expressions, activities and speech genres in family dialogues -- 4. How can speech genres affect the acquisition and use of referring expressions? -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 12. Development of discourse competence: Spatial descriptions and narratives in L1 French -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Database - communicative tasks and discourse types -- 3. Construction of narratives and descriptions: Similarities in the development of discourse competence -- 4. Construction of narratives and descriptions: Task influence on the development of discourse capacity -- 5. Discussion and conclusions -- References -- Chapter 13. Texting by 12-year-olds: Features shared with spoken language -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Method -- 3. Results -- 4. Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix. Translation of text messages into traditional French and English -- Part III. Variation in types of acquisition and types of learners -- Chapter 14. A unified model of first and second language learning -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Three frameworks -- 3. Risk factors and support factors -- 4. Summary -- References -- Chapter 15. On-line sentence processing in simultaneous French/Swedish bilinguals -- Introduction -- 1. Sentence processing in the Competition Model -- 2. Selected characteristics of French and Swedish -- 3. Main factors of cue cost -- 4. Previous results on cue cost in French and Swedish monolinguals -- 5. Method -- 6. Cue cost in simultaneous French /Swedish bilinguals -- 7. Discussion and concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- Chapter 16. The blossoming of negation in gesture, sign and oral productions -- Introduction.

1. Literature review and research issues -- 2. Data and method -- 3. Results per child -- 4. Discussion and conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 17. Motion expression in children's acquisition of French Sign Language -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Space across languages -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Background: Previous results in spoken English and French -- 5. Results in LSF -- 6. Discussion -- 7. Concluding remarks -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix. Stimuli -- Chapter 18. Early predictors of language development in Autism Spectrum Disorder -- 1. Language in Autism Spectrum Disorder -- 2. Predictors of language outcomes in toddlers with ASD -- 3. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 19. Spoken and written narratives from French- and English-speaking children with Language Impairment -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The narrative study -- 3. Analysis and results -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Language, modality, and Language Impairment -- References -- Appendix A. Complex sentence types and their weighted score -- Chapter 20. Non-literal language comprehension: Brain damage and developmental perspectives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Indirect request comprehension in adults with right-hemisphere damage and adults with traumatic brain injury -- 3. Request comprehension in children and adolescents with frontal lesions -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Language index -- Subject index.

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