Table of contents
Foreword
VII
Introduction
1
Part 1.Levels of acquisition
Learning how to communicate in infancy
11
Heads, shoulders, knees and toes
What developmental robotics can tell us about language acquisition
39
Insights from studying statistical learning
65
From grammatical categories to processes of categorization
The acquisition of morphosyntax from a usage-based perspective
91
The retreat from transitive-causative overgeneralization errors
A review and diary study
113
Where form meets meaning in the acquisition of grammatical constructions
131
Social cognitive and later language acquisition
155
Part 2.Levels of variation
The emergence of gesture during prelinguistic interaction
173
Individual differences in first language acquisition and their theoretical implications
189
Understanding the cross-linguistic pattern of verb-marking error in typically developing children and children with developmental language disorder
Why the input matters
221
Sampling linguistic diversity to understand language development
247
Lessons from studying language development in bilingual children
263
Language disorders and autism
Implications for usage-based theories of language development
287
Index
323
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