Table of Contents

1. Assessing children's knowledge of word order with familiar and novel verbs Nameera Akhtar and Raquel Jaakkola; 2. Developments in theory of mind and evidentiality Ayhan Aksu-Koc and Didem Mersin Alici; 3. Modal reference in children's root infinitives Misha Becker and Nina Hyams; 4. Isolated words in mothers' speech to infants Michael R. Brent and Jeffrey Mark Siskind; 5. Differential effects of phonology and morphology in children's orthographic systems Steven Gillis and Dorit Ravid; 6. Evidential final particles in child Cantonese Thomas Hun-tak Lee and Ann Law; 7. Tense and aspect in French-speaking children's written and oral narratives Catherine Leger; 8. Lexical specificity in children's early language and its relation to lexical patterning in the input Elena Lieven and Anna Theakston; 9. Typological differences and the development of representations in speech and gesture Asli Ozyurek and Seyda Ozcaliskan; 10. The acquisition of tense/aspect and the cline of grammaticalization Hrafnhildur Ragnarsdottir, Sven Stromqvist and Asa Nordqvist; 11. The acquisition of causative morphology Yasuhiro Shirai, Susanne Miyata, Norio Naka and Yoshiko Sakazaki; 12. Studying on-line sentence processing in children John C. Trueswell, Irina Sekerina, Nicole M. Hill and Marian Logrip; 13. The early make-up of children's verb lexicons Sigal Uziel-Karl; 14. The bilingual child Colleen Wapole; 15. How Cantonese-speaking two-year-olds fend for themselves through the thicket of classifiers Cathy S. P. Wong; 16. Compounding and inflection in Finnish child language Farrell Ackerman and Sirkka Vanttila; 17. The acquisition of Japanese prosody Katsura Aoyama; 18. The phonetics and phonology of minimal words in child speech John Archibald and Tim Mills; 19. Gradual learning algorithm predicts acquisition order Paul Boersma and Clara C. Levelt; 20. He descended legs-upwards Penelope Brown; 21. A twin study of early vocabulary and grammatical development Jennifer Ganger, Steven Pinker, Allison Baker and Sonia Chawla; 22. The givenness hierarchy and acquisition of referring expressions in English and Spanish Jeanette K. Gundel, Sherri Page and Maria Sera; 23. A contextual analysis of a Japanese two-year-old's non-specific clarification requests Naomi Hamasaki; 24. Do children ever learn about linguistic gender? Yonata Levy; 25. High-dimensional semantic space and the acquisition of word meaning Ping Li, Kimberly Getty and Ashley Diefendorf; 26. Aren't two children always alike? Julien Musolino; 27. Learning inflectional agreement from parental speech Tony C. Smith; 28. Cross-situational observation and the semantic bootstrapping hypothesis Jesse Snedeker; 29. Acquisition of Turkish word order Karin Stromswold and Natalie Batman-Ratyosyan; 30. Tone sandhi as evidence for segmentation in Taiwanese Jane Tsay, Xiao-Jun Chen and James Myers.

About the Author

Barbara Kelly is assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. Eve V. Clark is professor of linguistics at Stanford University.