Index

• A

• American sign language (ASL) 226–227, 230, 239–240

• Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) 49, 69, 74–78, 80–83

• aspect vii, x, 4–7, 10, 12–14, 17–18, 20, 31, 41, 47, 67, 71, 76, 85, 89, 96, 102, 107, 129–130, 133, 141–142, 146–147, 149, 153, 156, 168, 170, 177, 181–182, 184–186, 190, 200, 203, 215, 224, 230

• assertives 55

• B

• behavior-directing 53–55, 62, 64

• bilingual(ism) viii–ix, 53, 58–59, 61, 63–66, 68, 72–74, 77–78, 81–83, 108, 130, 134–139, 147–150, 180, 195–196

• birth weight 99, 101

• bookreading 109, 151, 153, 158–159, 161, 163–165

• C

• Chinese 72–73, 82, 135, 148, 150, 177, 194–195

• CLAN 60, 101

• comparatives 10

• compounds 43, 48

• commissives 55

• conditionals viii, 3, 5–7, 9–10, 15–16

• contingency 7, 9, 19, 26–27, 162

• conversational skills 19

• conversation-eliciting parenting style 55

• D

• developmental disorders ix, 69, 74–78, 80–81, 83

• directives 55–56, 62–64, 66, 100

• Down Syndrome (DS) 69, 74–78 80, 82–83

• dynamic events x, 145, 181, 184, 186, 194, 197

• E

• educational aspirations 66

• ellipsis 206

• English viii, 3–5, 32, 48, 50, 54, 70–74, 77, 79–80, 82–83, 85–86, 95–96, 120, 135, 140–142, 145, 149, 151–153, 157, 165, 170, 183–185, 187–196, 200, 202–204, 209, 214, 218, 239

• episodic future simulation 133

• episodic specificity 133, 136–139

• expressives 55

• event perception 179–180, 196

• evidentiality vii, x, 4, 17, 86, 96, 113–134,, 140–142, 145–149, 167, 170, 174–175, 177, 199, 217, 223

• F

• false beliefs (FB) 114, 130, 140, 151–166, 166, 218

• felicity 116, 120, 122, 126

• frog story xi, 4, 16, 152, 166, 196, 199–201, 203–204, 206–207, 209, 211–218, 220

• G

• gaze viii, xi, 19–20, 22, 27–28, 30–31, 33, 114, 130

• German viii, 3, 53, 55–61, 63–68, 86, 88–89, 95, 97, 131, 194, 240

• gestational age 99, 101

• gestures viii–xi,19, 21–24, 28–33, 69–83, 86, 189, 193–196

• H

• hearsay 116, 122, 140–142, 144, 168–171, 173–175

• Hebrew viii, xi, 35–37, 39, 42–44, 46–52, 184, 199–200, 203, 205–209, 211, 213–220

• hypotheticals viii, 3, 8

• I

• inference 22, 116–118, 120–122, 126, 128, 140, 142, 144, 168–170, 173–176

• input vii–viii, 5, 35–37, 39–47, 49–55, 61, 66, 68–69, 77–78, 83, 85, 87, 94, 104, 106–108, 176–177, 180–181, 189, 194, 197, 216 ; , see also maternal speech

• Italian 4, 70, 79, 81, 239

• J

• Japanese 169, 177, 185, 187–189, 192–193, 195–196, 239

• joint attention 20–23, 25, 29, 33–34, 81, 168

• joint decision making 85–87, 94

• K

• Kurdish x, 136–139

• L

• language and thought 140, 147–149, 179

• lexicon xi, 42–45, 47, 49, 60, 108, 188, 199, 208, 218

• literacy 35–36, 47–48, 50–51, 80–81, 107, 219–220

• M

• maternal speech 35–36, 39, 49, 67, 108 ; , see also input

• mean length of utterance (MLU) 38, 61, 99, 101–102, 105

• memory x, xii, 13, 25, 27–28, 31, 48–49, 125, 127, 131, 133–135, 137, 140–142, 144–149, 177, 193, 196

• mental state verbs 95, 114

• migration 58, 65–66

• -mIş 141, 170

• mind reading 218

• misconception xi, 152, 158, 199–200, 204, 210, 212, 216–217

• misinformation 133, 140–145, 147

• MLW 99, 101–102

• mobility ix, 58, 66

• modality vii, xi, 17–18, 44, 67, 71–72, 78, 80, 96, 102, 129–130, 147, 149, 170, 176–177, 212, 217, 223–224, 228, 238, 240

• monolingual viii–ix, 51, 53, 58–59, 61, 63–66, 68, 71–74, 77–78, 81–82, 88, 99, 192

• morphological complexity ix, 57, 99–102, 104–106

• N

• narrative viii, x–xi, 4, 12, 16–17, 47–48, 72–73, 80, 83, 86, 96, 107, 134, 143–144, 146, 151–154, 156, 163, 165, 171, 173–175, 193, 199–200, 203–204, 206, 214–215, 217–220

• negative evidence 115, 130

• normativity viii, 3, 8, 11–12, 15

• P

• parental response ix, 69, 76, 79

• parenting style 36, 53–55, 58, 65

• peer conversations ix, 85–87, 95

• pointing 20, 25, 27–28, 30, 32, 80, 233

• pragmatic development 19

• prepositions 44, 179–180, 183, 205, 240

• preterm birth 99

• Q

• questions viii–ix, 4, 11, 13, 15, 25, 27–29, 31, 44–45, 47–48, 53–55, 60, 62, 64–66, 85–95, 97, 104, 108, 113–116, 125–129, 139, 142–143, 151, 154, 156–161, 163–165, 167, 180–181, 186, 216, 229

• prosodic questions 90–91, 95

• tag questions 90–91, 95

• why-questions 11

• yes/no questions 28, 85–87, 90, 92–94

• reflection principle 113, 126, 128

• relational language 179, 182, 192, 239

• repetitions 42–43, 137, 202, 216

• request viii, 8, 11, 21, 23–24, 29, 53–58, 60, 62–68, 70, 77, 87, 96

• S

• semantics x, 4, 18, 68, 85, 113, 116, 122–123, 125–126, 128–130, 147, 149, 195, 198

• Socio-economic status (SES) vii–x, 35–54, 48–49, 51–54, 58–59, 64–66, 68, 83, 100–101, 108, 174, 176

• sibling vii, ix, xii, 25, 27, 31, 60, 86, 96, 99–101, 103–109

• sign language acquisition xi, 223, 228

• situation semantics x, 113, 116, 122, 125–126, 128

• social environment vii, ix, 99, 107

• Spanish 3, 72–74, 77, 80, 83, 135, 149, 184, 188–189, 191, 195–196

• speech acts 3, 6, 23, 30, 45, 53–55, 60–66

• static events 183

• Swedish 72

• T

• taking turns 24

• temporal expressions viii, 3–4, 7

• theory of mind vii, x, xii, 36, 45, 48, 113–114, 122, 129–130, 151–152, 165–166, 176, 208, 216–217

• Tibetan ix, 113, 116–130

• Turkish sign language (TİD) 223–229, 231, 233–240

• triadic interaction 99–100, 103–104, 106

• truth conditions 116

• Turkish vii–viii, x–xi, 3–5, 17–18, 47, 53–63, 65–68, 72, 79–80, 85–86, 96, 99–100, 102–103, 105–107, 109, 113–114, 118–119, 129, 131, 136–145, 147, 149, 152–153, 165, 167–168, 170, 174–175, 177, 179, 183–185, 189, 191, 193–194, 196, 199–200, 203–204, 214, 218, 223–224, 228–229, 239–240

• turn-taking 25, 31–32

• twins ix, 99–106, 109

• V

• verbal backtracking 199