Table of contents
List of contributors
VII
IntroductionWhat can variation tell us about first language acquisition?
1
Part I.Universals and cross-linguistic variation in acquisition
Chapter 1.Templates in child language
27
Chapter 2.Phonological categories and their manifestations in child phonology
45
Chapter 3.Bootstrapping lexical and syntactic acquisition
63
Chapter 4.Retrieving meaning from noun and verb grammatical contexts: Interindividual variation among 2- to 4-year-old French-speaking children
81
Chapter 5.Language-specificity in Motion expression: Early acquisition in Korean compared to French and English
103
Chapter 6.Cross-linguistic variation in children’s multimodal utterances
123
Chapter 7.Gesture and speech in adults’ and children’s narratives: A cross-linguistic investigation of Zulu and French
139
Part II.Variation in input and contexts during acquisition
Chapter 8.Conversational partners and common ground: Variation contributes to language acquisition
163
Chapter 9.Invariance in variation: Frequency and neighbourhood density as predictors of vocabulary size
183
Chapter 10.New perspectives on input-output dynamics: Example from the emergence of the Noun category
201
Chapter 11.Referential features, speech genres and activity types
219
Chapter 12.Development of discourse competence: Spatial descriptions and narratives in L1 French
243
Chapter 13.Texting by 12-year-olds: Features shared with spoken language
265
Part III.Variation in types of acquisition and types of learners
Chapter 14.A unified model of first and second language learning
287
Chapter 15.Online sentence processing in simultaneous French/Swedish bilinguals
313
Chapter 16.The blossoming of negation in gesture, sign and oral productions
339
Chapter 17.Motion expression in children’s acquisition of French Sign Language
365
Chapter 18.Early predictors of language development in Autism Spectrum Disorder
391
Chapter 19.Spoken and written narratives from French- and English-speaking children with Language Impairment
409
Chapter 20.Non-literal language comprehension: Brain damage and developmental perspectives
427
Language index
439
Subject index
441
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