Approaches to Bootstrapping: Volume 2 ~ Phonological, Lexical, Syntactic and Neurophysiological Aspects of Early Language Acquisition (Language Acquisition and Language Disorders)

344 Pages·2001·2 MB·English

by  Jurgen Weissenborn

APPROACHES TO BOOTSTRAPPING
VOLUME 2
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION & LANGUAGE DISORDERS
EDITORS
Harald Clahsen Lydia White
University of Essex McGill University
EDITORIAL BOARD
Melissa Bowerman (Max Planck Institut für Psycholinguistik, Nijmegen)
Katherine Demuth (Brown University)
Nina Hyams (University of California at Los Angeles)
William O’Grady (University of Hawaii)
Jürgen Meisel (Universität Hamburg)
Mabel Rice (University of Kansas)
Luigi Rizzi (University of Siena)
Bonnie Schwartz (University of Durham)
Antonella Sorace (University of Edinburgh)
Karin Stromswold (Rutgers University)
Jürgen Weissenborn (Universität Potsdam)
Frank Wijnen (Utrecht University)
Volume 24
Jürgen Weissenborn and Barbara Höhle (eds.)
Approaches to Bootstrapping.
Phonological, lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological
aspects of early language acquisition. Volume 2.
APPROACHES TO
BOOTSTRAPPING
PHONOLOGICAL, LEXICAL, SYNTACTIC
AND NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF
EARLY LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
VOLUME 2
Edited by
JÜRGEN WEISSENBORN
BARBARA HÖHLE
University of Potsdam
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Approaches to bootstrapping : phonological, lexical, syntactic and neurophysiological aspects
of early language acquisition / edited by Jürgen Weissenborn, Barbara Höhle.
p. cm. -- (Language acquisition & language disorders : ISSN 0925-0123; v. 23-24)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Language acquisition. 2. Language awareness in children. I. Weissenborn, Jürgen.
II. Höhle, Barbara. III. Series.
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Table of Contents
P III
InteractionsofProsodicandMorphosyntacticKnowledgeinEarly
LanguageProduction
Prosodic Constraints on Morphological Development 3
KatherineDemuth
The Interface of Phonology and Syntax:The emergence of the article
in the early acquisition of Spanish and German 23
ConxitaLleó
Interaction between Prosody and Morphosyntax:Plurals within codas
in the acquisition of European Portuguese 45
M.JoãoFreitas,MatildeMiguel&IsabelHubFaria
Compounds Triggering Prosodic Development 59
PaulaFikkert
Prosodic Form, Syntactic Form, Phonological Bootstrapping, and
Telegraphic Speech 87
DavidLebeaux
ff
From Prosody to Grammar in English:The di erentiation of
catenatives, modals, and auxiliaries from a single protomorpheme 121
AnnM.Peters
Input and production in the early development of function words 157
ff
SvenStrömqvist,HrafnhildurRagnarsdóttir&UllaRichtho
P IV
NeurophysiologicalAspectsofLanguageAcquisition
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Language Development during Infancy and Early Childhood:
Electrophysiological correlates 181
DennisL.Molfese,DanaB.Narter,AmyJ.VanMatre,
MichelleR.Ellefson&ArleneModglin
Development Patterns of Brain Activity: Reflecting semantic and
syntactic processes 231
AngelaD.Friederici&AnjaHahne
Electrophysiological Studies of Language Development 247
MarieSt.George&DebraL.Mills
P V
AdditionalPerspectivesonLanguageAcquisition
Interactionist Approaches to Early Language Acquisition 263
KimPlunkett
Repertoires of Primitive Elements: Prerequisite or result of
acquisition? 281
ManfredBierwisch
Developmental Trajectories of Complex Signal Systems in Animals:
The model of bird song 309
H.Hultsch&D.Todt
Index 333
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Interactions of Prosodic and Morphosyntactic
Knowledge in Early Language Production

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Prosodic Constraints
on Morphological Development
Katherine Demuth
BrownUniversity
1. Theacquisitionofgrammaticalmorphology
Since Roger Brown’s (1973) influential work on the acquisition of grammatical
morphologybyAdam,Eve,andSarah,theissueofhowandwhenchildrencome
to acquire grammatical morphemes has presented a challenge to the field. Since
that time there have been several proposals for how and why grammatical
morphologymightbemissingfromchildren’searlyspeech.Theseproposalshave
ranged from the primacy of semantics in early grammars (e.g. Braine 1971;
Bowerman 1973) to the impoverishment of early syntax (e.g. Guilfoyle &
Noonan 1988; Lebeaux 1989; Radford 1990). Yet many syntacticians note that
children seem to ‘know’ that grammatical morphemes exist even if they don’t
produce them (e.g. Demuth 1992, 1994; Hyams 1992). If this is true, then there
needs to be an explanation for this phenomenon.
Ithas recentlybeenproposed that children’s earlyomissionofgrammatical
morphology is due to rhythmicproductionconstraints (e.g. Gerken, Landau &
Remez1990;Gerken1991;Gerken&McIntosh1993;Demuth1994).Underthis
proposalstressedorstrong(S)syllablesandtheunstressed,orweak(w)syllables
that follow them form trochaicfeet — structures which are seen as playing an
important role in determining which syllables will be retained or omitted in
children’s early speech. Given a wSw sequence of syllables such as in the word
banana, the rhythmic production constraints approach would predict that the
second and third syllables — i.e. the Sw trochaic foot nana, would surface, the
initialweaksyllablebeingdeletedunlessitcouldcombinewithastressedsyllable
from a preceding word to form a trochaic foot. This approach seems to account
for much of the data around the ages of 2;6–3;6, especially in stress-timed