Table of contents
Part I: Early Word Learning and its Prerequisites1
Bootstrapping from the Signal: Some Further Directions
Contributions of Prosody to Infants’ Segmentation and Representation of Speech
Implicit Memory Support for Language Acquisition
How Accessible is the Lexicon in Motherese?
Bootstrapping a First Vocabulary
Infants’ Developing Competence in Recognizing and Understanding Words in Fluent Speech
Lemma Structure in Language Learning: Comments on Representation and Realization
Part II: From Input Cues to Syntactic Knowledge145
Signal to Syntax: Building a Bridge
A Reappraisal of Young Children’s Knowledge of Grammatical Morphemes
Predicting Grammatical Classes from Phonological Cues: An Empirical Test
Pre-lexical Setting of the Head: Complement Parameter through Prosody
Discovering Word Order Regularities: The Role of Prosodic Information for Early Parameter Setting
On the Prosody/Lexicon Interface in Learning Word Order: A Study of Normally Developing and Language Impaired Children
Index295
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