Slides

development", Journal of Child Language 24: 187-219.
MacWhinney, B. (1982). "Basic syntactic processes", in S. Kuczaj III ed. Language
Development Vol. 1: syntax and semantics. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Maratsos, Michael and M. Chalkley (1980) "The internal language of children's syntax: the
ontogenesis and representation of syntactic categories," in K. Nelson (ed.) Children's
Language. vol. 2. New York: Gardner Press.
Mintz, Toben ( 2003) “Frequent frames as a cue for grammatical categories in child directed
speech” Cognition 90 (2003) 91-117.
Mintz, Toben, Elissa Newport, and Thomas Bever (1995) "Distributional regularities of form
class in speech to young children," in J. Beckman (ed) Proceedings of the North East
Linguistics Society 25 (vol. 2): 43-54. Amherst, MA: GSLA.
Newport, Elissa (1990) "Maturational constraints on language learning", in Paul Bloom (ed)
1993. Language Acquisition: core readings. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. pp. 543-560.
Pine, J. and E. Lieven (1993). "Reanalyzing rote-learned phrases: individual differences in the
transition to multi-word speech", Journal of Child Language 20: 551-571.
Pine, J., E. Lieven and C. Rowland (1998) "Comparing different models of the development
of the English verb category," Linguistics 36.4: 807-830.
Pinker, S. (1987). “The boostrapping problem in language acquisition”, in B. MacWhinney
(ed) Mechanisms of Language Acquisition. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Poeppel, D. and K. Wexler (1993). "The full competence hypothesis of clause structure in
early German", Language 69.1: 365-424.
Schlesinger, I. (1982) "Semantic assimilation in the development of relational categories," in
W. Deutsche (ed.) The Child's Construction of Language. New York: Academic Press.
Tomasello, M. (1992). First Verbs: a case study of early grammatical development. London:
Cambridge University Press.
Tomasello, M. (2000a). "Do young children have adult syntactic competence" Cognition 74:
209-253.
Tomasello, Michael (2003) Constructing a Language-a usage-based theory of language
acquisition. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.
Valian, V. (1986) “Syntactic categories in the speech of young children”, Developmental
Psychology 22.4: 562-579.
Valian, V. (1991) "Syntactic subjects in the early speech of American and Italian children,"
Cognition 40: 21-81.
Wexler, K. (1993) "Optional infinitives, head movement and the economy of derivations", in
N. Hornstein and D. Lightfoot (eds) Verb Movement. Cambridge University Press.
Wexler, Kenneth (1998) "Very early parameter setting and the unique checking constraint: a
new explanation of the optional infinitive stage," Lingua 106: 23-79.
Wexler, Kenneth (2003) "Lenneberg's dream: learning, normal language development, and
specific language impairment," in Y. Levy and J. Schaeffer (eds.) Language Competence
Across Populations: Toward a Definition of Specific Language Impairment. Mahwah, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum.
Wong, Sin Ping (1998) "The Acquisition of Cantonese Noun Phrases". PhD dissertation,
University of Hawaii.
Xiao, Ling (2006) Category and Productivity in the Early Development of Verb Argument
Structures in Chinese. MA thesis, Dept of Linguistics, Hunan University.
Xiao, Ling, Xin Cai, and T. Lee (2006) "The development of the verb category and verb
argument structure in children before two years of age," in Yukio Otsu (ed.) Proceedings
of the Seventh Tokyo Conference on Psycholinguistics. Tokyo: Hituzi Syobo.
15