Article outline

• 3.1Crosslinguistic study of language acquisition
• 3.2Early verb production
  • 3.2.1Phonological and prosodic accounts
    • 3.2.1.1Perceptual salience
    • 3.2.1.2Prosodic licensing model
  • 3.2.2Morphosyntactic accounts
    • 3.2.2.1Perceptual salience and grammar
    • 3.2.2.2Root infinitives and analogue hypotheses
• 3.3Verb lexicon in acquisition
  • 3.3.1Semantics of early verbs
  • 3.3.2Verbs and pragmatic development
    • 3.3.2.1Speech act development
• 3.4Acquisition of inflectional morphology
  • 3.4.1Nativist/generativist approaches
  • 3.4.2Usage-based approaches
  • 3.4.3Protomorphology
  • 3.4.4Morphological complexity
  • 3.4.5Quantifying morphological development
• 3.5Acquisition of bipartite constructions
• Notes