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Distributed for the Center for the Study of Language and Information

Edited by Barb Kelly and Eve V. Clark

Constructions in Acquisition

346 pages,  6 x 9  © 2006
Series: Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes

Cloth $70.00

ISBN: 9781575864976   Published August 2006

Paper $27.50

ISBN: 9781575864983   Published August 2006

Contributors
 
1   Constructions and Acquisition
      EVE V. CLARK & BARBARA F. KELLY
 
2   The Development of Constructions Through Early Gesture Use
     BARBARA F. KELLY
 
3   How Gesture Helps Children Construct Language
     SEYDA ÖZÇALISKAN & SUSAN occurrence
 
4   Frequent Frames: Simple Co-occurence Constructions and Their Links to
     Linguistic Structure
     TOBEN H. MINTZ
 
5   Producing Multiword Utterances
     ELENA LIEVEN
 
6   The Acquisition of Verb Compounding in Mandarin
     JIDONG CHEN
 
7   From Holophrases to Abstract Grammatical Constructions: Insights from
     Simulation Studies
     PETER F. DOMINEY
 
8   Interim Solutions: The Acquisition of Early Verb Constructions in Hindi
     NANCY BUDWIG, BHUVANA NARASIMHAN & SMITA 
      SRIVASTAVA
   
9   Learning Argument Structure Constructions
     ADELE E. GOLDBERG & DEVIN CASENHISER
 
10 Causative Alternation Errors as Event-Driven Construction Paradigm
     Completions
     JEAN-PHILIPPE MARCOTTE
 
11 Caused Motion Constuctions and Semantic Generality in Early Acquisition of 
     French
     FLORENCE CHENU & HARRIET JISA
 
12 Interactions in the Development of Constructions and the Acquisition of Word
     Meanings
     JUDITH C. GOODMAN & NITYA SETHURAMAN
 
13 Building Questions in Cantonese
     STEPHANIE F. STROKES & ANITA M.-Y. WONG
 
14 The Acquisition of Complement Clause Constructions
      EVAN KIDD
 
Name Index
Topic Index
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