This paper was prepared with the partial support of NSF grants BNS 8318983, BNS 8206328 and BNS 7825115, and with a Cornell University College of human Ecology small grant. We thank Marion potts for comments on the issues. We also thank Tatsuko Wakayama and Reiko Mazuka for critical comments and collaboration: and Ann Lai for statistical assistance. We thank Gerald Chu for careful bibliographic assistance
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Ardery G.: 1980, ‘On coordination in child language’, Journal of Child Language 7, 305–320.
Baird, R.: 1972, ‘On the role of chance in Imitation-Comprehension-Production test results’, Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 11, 474–477.
Baird, R.: 1973, ‘Structural characteristics of clause containing sentences and imitation by children and adults’, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 2, 115–127.
Beilin, H., and B. Lust: 1975, ‘A study of the development of logical and linguistic connectives: Linguistic data’, in H. Beilin (ed.), Studies in the Cognitive Basis of Language Development, Academic Press, New York, pp. 285–337.
Berwick, R.: 1985, The Acquisition of Syntactic Knowledge, MIT Press, Cambridge.
Bever, T.: 1970, ‘The cognitive basis for linguistic structures’, in J. Hayes (ed.), Cognition and the Development of Language, John Wiley, New York, pp. 279–352.
Blake Maiese, J., G. Quarto, W. Austin, and Z. Vingiles: 1984, ‘Memory capacity and language complexity’, unpublished manuscript, York University, Toronto, Canada.
Bloom, L.: 1974, ‘Talking, understanding, and thinking’, in R. L. Schiefelbusch, and L. L. Lloyd (eds.), Language Perspectives — Acquisition, Retardation, and Intervention, University Park Press, Baltimore, pp. 285–311.
Bloom, L., M. Lahey, K. Lifter, and K. Fiess: 1980a, ‘Complex sentences: Acquisition of syntactic connectives and the semantic relations they encode’, Journal of Child Language 7, 235–262.
Bowerman, M.: 1973 Early Syntactic Development, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Bradley, M. Garrett, and E. Zurif: 1980, ‘Syntactic deficits in Broca’s aphasia’, in D. Caplan (ed.), Biological Studies of Mental Processes, MIT Press, Cambridge, pp. 269–286.
Brainerd, C. J., and J. Kingma: 1985, ‘On the independence of short-term memory and working memory in cognitive development’, Cognitive Psychology 17, 210–247.
Brown, R.: 1973, A First Language, Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
Caramazza, A., and E. B. Zurif: 1976, ‘Dissociation of algorithmic and heuristic processes in language comprehension: Evidence from aphasia’, Brain and Language 3, 572–582.
Carden, G.: 1986, ‘Blocked forward coreference: Theoretical implications of the acquisition data’, in B. Lust (ed.), Studies in the Acquisition of Anaphora, Vol I., Defining the Constraints, D. Reidel. Dordrecht, pp. 319–357..
Ceci, S. J., and M. J. A. Howe: 1978, ‘Semantic knowledge as a determinant of developmental differences in recall’, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 26, 230–245.
Chapman R. S., and J. F. Miller: 1975, ‘Word order in early two and three word utterances: Does production precede comprehension?’, Journal of Speech and Hearing Research 18, 355–377.
Chien, Y-C.: 1983a, Topic-Comment Structure and Grammatical Structure in First Language Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese, unpublished doctoral thesis, Cornell University, Ithaca.
Chien, Y-C.: 1983b, ‘Topic-comment structure and grammatical structure in first language acquisition of Mandarin Chinese: A study of equi constructions’, Papers and Reports on Child Language Development 22, Stanford University, Standford, 74–82.
Chien, Y-C., and B. Lust: 1985, ‘The concept of topic and subject in first language acquisition of Mandarin Chinese’, Child Development 56, 1359–1375.
Chomsky, C.: 1969, The Acquisition of Syntax in Children from 5 to 10, MIT Press, Cambridge.
Chomsky, N.: 1964, ‘Formal discussion’, in U. Bellugi and R. Brown (eds.), Acquisition of Language, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 29 (1), 35–39.
Chomsky, N.: 1965, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, MIT Press, Cambridge.
Chomsky, N.: 1975, Reflections on Language, Pantheon, New York.
Chomsky, N.: 1980, Rules and Representations, Columbia University Press, New York.
Chomsky, N.: 1981, Lectures on Government and Binding, Foris, Dordrecht.
Chomsky, N.: 1982, Some Concepts and Consequences of the Theory of Government and Binding, MIT Press, Cambridge.
Chomsky, N.: 1986, Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin and Use, Praeger Publishers, N. Y.
Cinque, G.: 1983, ‘On the theory of relative clauses and markedness’, The Linguistic Review 1, 249–294.
Clark, E. V.: 1973, ‘How children describe time and order’, in C. A. Ferguson and D. I. Slobin (eds.), Studies of Child Language Development, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, pp. 585–606.
Clark, R. : 1983 ‘Theory and method in child language research: Are we assuming too much?’, in S. Kuczaj II (ed.) Language Development, Vol I Syntax and Semantics, Lawrence Erlbaum Assosciates, Hillsdale, pp. 1–36.
Clay, M: 1971, ‘Sentence Repetition: Elicited Imitation of a Controlled Set of Syntactic Structures by Four Language Groups’, Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development 36 (3, Serial No. 143).
Clifford, T. H.: 1984, Acquisition of Pronouns in the First Language Acquisition of English: A Study of Natural Speech, unpublished masters thesis, Cornell University, Ithaca.
Cohen Sherman, J.: 1983, The Acquisition of Control in Complement Sentences: The role of Structural and Lexical Factors, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Cornell University, Ithaca.
Cohen Sherman, J., and B. Lust: 1986, ‘Syntactic and lexical constraints on the acquisitionof control in complement sentences’, in B. Lust (ed.),Studies in the Acquisition of Anaphora, Vol. I, Defining the contraints, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, pp. 279–308.
Cooper, W. E.: 1977, ‘The development of speech timing’, in S. J. Segalowitz and F. A. Gruber (eds.), Language Development and Neurological Theory, Academic Press, New York, pp. 357–373.
Crain, S., and C. McKee: 1986, ‘Acquisition of structural restrictions on anaphora’, in S. Berman, J-W. Choe, and J. McDonough (eds.), Proceedings of the Sixteenth Annual North Eastern Linguistic Society, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, pp. 94–110.
Dale, P. S.: 1976, Language Development: Structure and Function, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York.
deVilliers, J., H. Tager-Flusberg, and K. Hakuta: 1977, ‘Deciding among theories of development of coordination in child speech’, Papers and Reports on Child Language Development 13, Stanford University.
Donaldson, M.: 1978, Children’s Minds, Fontana, Great Britain.
Fernald, C. D.: 1972, ‘Control of grammar in imitation, comprehension, and production: Problems of replication’, Journal of Verbal Learning and Behavior 11, 606–613.
Ferreiro, E., Ch. Othenin-Girard, H. Chipman and H. Sinclair: 1976, ‘How do children handle relative clauses?’, Archives de Psychologie XLFV, 229–233.
Flynn, S.: 1983, A Study of the Effects of Principle Branching Direction in Second Language Acquisition: The Generalization of a Parameter of Universal Grammar From First to Second Language Acquisition, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Cornell University, Ithaca.
Flynn, S.: 1986, ‘Production vs. Comprehension: Differences in underlying competences’, Studies in Second Language Acquisition 8, 14–46.
Flynn, S.: 1987, A Parameter-Setting Model of L2 Acquisition: Experimental Studies in Anaphora, D. Reidel, Dordrecht.
Flynn, S., and B. Lust: 1981, ‘Acquisition of relative clauses: Developmental changes in their heads’, in W. Harbert and J. Herschensohn (eds.), Cornell Working Papers, Cornell University, Ithaca, pp. 33–45.
Fodor, J., T. Bever, and M. Garrett: 1974, The Psychology of Language, McGraw Hill, New York.
Fraser, C., U. Bellugi, and R. Brown: 1963, ‘Control of grammar in imitation, comprehension, and production’, Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 2, 121–135.
Gallimore, R., and R. Tharp: 1981, ‘The interpretation of elicited sentence imitation in a standardized context’, Language Learning 31, 369–392.
Gleitman, L.: 1969, ‘Coordinating conjunctions in English’, in D. Reibel and S. Schane (eds.), Modern Studies in English, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, pp. 80–112.
Gleitman, L.: 1981, ‘Maturational determinants of language growth’, Cognition 10, 103–114.
Gleitman, L., H. Gleitman, and E. Shipley: 1972, ‘The emergence of the child as a grammarian’, Cognition 1, 137–164.
Goodluck, H., and L. Solan (eds.): 1978, Papers in the Structure and Development of Child Language, Occasional Papers in Linguistics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Greenfield, P. M., and Dent, C. H.: 1982, ‘Pragmatic factors in children’s phrasal coordination’, Journal of Child Language 9, 425–443.
Hakuta, K., J. deVilliers, and H. Tager-Flusberg: 1982, ‘Sentence coordination in Japanese and English’, Journal of Child Language 9, 193–207.
Hale, G.: 1977, ‘On the use of ANOVA in development research’, Child Development 48, 1101–1106.
Hamburger, H.: 1980, ‘A deletion ahead of its time’, Cognition 8, 389–416.
Hamburger, H. and S. Crain: 1982, ‘Relative Acquisition’, in S. Kuczaj II (ed.), Language Development, Vol. I, Syntax and Semantics, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, pp. 245–275.
Homzie, M. J., C. B. Gravitt, and H. Deese: 1978, ‘Children’s reproductions: Effects of syntactic emphasis, length, and delay interval’, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 7, 167–177.
Hood, L., and P. M. Lightbown: 1978, ‘What children do when asked to “Say what I say”: Does elicited imitation measure linguistic knowledge?’, Allied Health and Behavioral Sciences 1, 195–219.
Hood, L., and B. Schieffelin: 1978, ‘Elicited imitation in two cultural contexts’, Quarterly Newsletter of the Institute for Comparative Human Development 2, 4–12.
Hsu, T., and L. Feldt: 1969, ‘The effect of limitations on the number of criterion score values on the significance level of the F-test’, American Educational Research Journal 6, 515–527.
Hust, J., and M. Brame: 1976, ‘Jackendoff on interpretative semantics’, Linguistic Analysis 2, 243–277.
Huttenlocher, J.: 1974, ‘The origins of language comprehension’, in R. L. Solso (ed.), Theories in Cognitive Psychology, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Potomac, pp. 331–368.
Hyams, N.: 1983, The Acquisition of Parameterized Grammars, unpublished doctoral dissertation, City University of New York.
Ingram, D.: 1974, ‘The relationship between comprehension and production’, in R. L. Schiefelbusch and L. L. Lloyd (eds.), Language Perspectives-Acquisition, Retardation and Intervention, University Park Press, Baltimore, pp. 313–334.
Jeruchimowicz Jeremy, R.: 1978, ‘Use of coordinate sentences with the conjunction “and” for describing temporal and locative relations between events’, Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 7, 135–150.
Kayne, R.: 1984, Connectedness and Binary Branching, Foris, Dordrecht.
Keppel, G., and W. Saufley, Jr.: 1980, Introduction to Design and Analysis, San Francisco: W. H. Freeman.
Kolk, H., M VanGrunsven, A. Keyser: 1985, ‘On parallelism between production and comprehension in agrammatism’, in M-L. Kean (eds.), Agrammatism, Academic Press, New York, pp. 165–206.
Lasnik, H. and S. Crain: to appear, ‘On the acquisition of pronominal reference’, Lingua.
Levelt, W. J. M.: 1974, Formal Grammars in Linguistics and Psycholinguistics, Vol. 3, Psycholinguistic Applications, Mouton, The Hague.
Liberman, A. M., and I. G. Mattingly: 1985, ‘The motor theory of speech perception revised’, Cognition 21, 1–36.
Limber, J.: 1973, ‘The genesis of complex sentences’, in T. E. Moore (ed.), Cognitive Development and the Acquisition of Language, Academic Press, N. Y.
Lust, B.: 1974, Conjunction Reduction in Language of Young Children: Studied With Particular Concern for the Directionality of the Deletion Component, unpublished doctoral dissertation, City University of New York Graduate Center.
Lust, B.: 1977, ‘Conjunction reduction in child language’, Journal of Child Language 4, 257–287.
Lust, B.: 1981a, ‘Constraint on anaphora in child language: A prediction for a universal’, in S. Tavakolian (ed.), Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory, MIT Press, Cambridge, pp. 74–96.
Lust, B.: 1981b, ‘Coordinating studies of coordination: A reply to Ardery’, Journal of Child Language 8, 457–470.
Lust, B.: 1983, ‘On the notion “principal branching direction”, a parameter of universal grammar’, in Y. Otsu, H. VanRiemsdijk, K. Inoue, A. Kamio, and N. Kawasaki (eds.), Studies in Generative Grammar and Language Acquisition, International Christian University, Tokyo, pp. 137–151.
Lust, B.: 1986a, ‘Introduction’, in Lust, B. (ed.), Studies in the Acquisition of Anaphora, Vol L, Defining the Constraints, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, pp. 3–103.
Lust, B. (ed.): 1986b, Studies in the Acquisition of Anaphora, Vol I., Defining the Constraints, D. Reidel, Dordrecht.
Lust, B.: 1986c, ‘Remarks on the psychological reality of the Subset Principle: Its relation to universal grammar as a model of the initial state’, in The Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, pp. 420–431.
Lust, B.: in preparation, ‘On the acquisition of syntax in Tamil: A comment on M. Garman 1976’, Cornell University, Ithaca.
Lust, B., and Y-C. Chien: 1984, ‘The structure of coordination in first language acquisition of Mandarin Chinese: Evidence for a universal’, Cognition 17, 49–83.
Lust, B., Y-C. Chien, and D. Gray: in preparation, ‘What Children Know About What They Say’, Cornell University, Ithaca.
Lust, B., Y-C. Chien, and L. Mangione: in preparation, ‘On the acquisition of anaphora in Chinese: The role of surface linearity vs. a configuration parameter’, Cornell University, Ithaca.
Lust, B., and T. Clifford: 1982, ‘The 3D study: Effects of depth, distance and directionality on children’s acquisition of anaphora’, in J. Pustejovsky and P. Sells (eds.), Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Meeting of the North Eastern Linguistic Society, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, pp. 174–186.
Lust, B., and T. Clifford: 1986, ‘The 3-D study: Effects of depth, distance and directionality on children’s acquisition of anaphora’, in B. Lust (ed.), Studies in the Acquisition of Anaphora, Vol I., Defining the Constraints, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, pp. 203–243.
Lust, B., S. Flynn, Y-C. Chien, and T. Clifford: 1980, ‘Coordination: The role of syntactic, pragmatic and processing factors in its first language acquisition’, Papers and Reports on Child Language Development 19, 79–87.
Lust, B., S. Flynn, Y-C. Chien, T. Clifford, N. Barazangi, and M. Bergmann: 1981, ‘Coordination: A cross-linguistic study of its first language acquisition’, paper presented at SRCD 1981 Biennial Meeting, April 3, Boston.
Lust, B., J. Gair, and K. deAbrew: in preparation, ‘Acquisition of Sinhalese null anaphora’.
Lust, B., K. Loveland, and R. Kornet: 1980, The development of anaphora in first language: Syntactic and pragmatic constraints’, Linguistic Analysis 6, 359–391.
Lust, B., L. Mangione, and Y-C. Chien: 1984, ‘The determination of empty categories in first language acquisition of Chinese’, in W. Harbert (ed.) Cornell Working Papers 6, 151–165.
Lust, B., and C. Mervis: 1980, ‘Development of coordination in the natural speech of young children’, Journal of Child Language 7, 279–304.
Lust, B., J. Pinhas, and S. Flynn: 1980, ‘A study of the acquisition of gapped coordinate structures’, paper presented at 5th Annual Conference on Child Language, Boston University.
Lust, B., L. Solan, S. Flynn, C. Cross, and E. Schuetz: 1986, ‘A comparison of null and pronoun anaphora in first language acquisition’, in Lust, B. (ed.), Studies in the Acquisition of Anaphora, Vol. I, Defining the Constraints, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, pp. 245–277.
Lust, B., and T. Wakayama: 1979, ‘The structure of coordination in children’s first language acquisition of Japanese’, in F. Eckman and A. Hastings (eds.), First and Second Language Acquisition, Newbury House, Rowley, pp. 134–152.
Lust, B., and T. Wakayama: 1981, ‘Word order in first language acquisition of Japanese’, in P. S. Dale and D. Ingram (eds.), Child Language — An International Perspective, University Park Press, Baltimore, pp. 72–90.
Lust, B., T. Wakayama, and W. Snyder: in preparation, ‘Acquisition of zero anaphora in Japanese: Experimental study of the role of a parameter’.
Lust, B., T. Wakayama, W. Snyder, K. Otani, R. Mazuka, and S. Oshima: 1985, ‘Configurational factors in Japanese anaphora: Evidence from acquisition’, paper presented at LSA Winter 1985 meeting.
Lust, B., T. Wakayama, W. Snyder, K. Otani, R. Mazuka, and S. Oshima: in preparation, ‘First language acquisition of Japanese null anaphora’.
Maratos, O. Panapoulos: 1981, The Origin and Development of Imitation in the First Six Months of Life, unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Geneva, Geneva.
Maratsos, M.: 1983, ‘Some current issues in the study of the acquisition of grammar’, in P. Mussen (ed.), Handbook of Child Psychology, Vol. III, pp. 707–786.
Maratsos, M. P., and S. A. Kuczaj: 1974, Evidence from elicited imitation for pre- productive competence in a grammatical system, Papers and Reports on Child Language Development 8, 65–77.
Marshall, J.: 1980, ‘On the biology of language acquisition’, in D, Caplan (ed.), Biological Studies of Mental Processes, MIT Press, 106–148.
Mazuka, R., and B. Lust: 1985, ‘A cross-linguistic test of the main clause effect in young children’s sentence processing: A study of Japanese’, Paper presented at 10th Annual Boston University Conference on Child Language.
Mazuka, R., B. Lust, T. Wakayama, and W. Snyder: 1986, ‘Distinguishing effects of parameters in early syntax acquisition: A cross-linguistic study of Japanese and English’, Papers and Reports on Child Language Development 25, 73–82.
Mazurkewich, I.: 1985, Acquisition of the Dative Alternation by Intuit Children, unpublished manuscript, Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Meltzoff, A. and K. Moore: 1985, ‘Cognitive foundations and social functions of imitation and intermodal representation in infancy’, in J. Mehler and R. Fox (eds.), Neonate Cognition - Beyond the Blooming Buzzing Confusion, 139–156.
Menyuk, P.: 1969, Sentences Children Use, MIT Press, Cambridge.
Menyuk, P.: 1971, The Acquisition and Development of Language, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.
Meredith, M. P., and F. B. Cady: 1980, ‘Methodology for analysis of treatment means from factorial experiments with unequal replication’, unpublished manuscript, Cornell University.
Miller, J. F.: 1973, ‘Sentence imitation in pre-school children’, Language and Speech 16, 1–14.
Ojemann, G. A.: 1983, ‘Brain organization for language from the perspective of electrical stimulation mapping’, The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 6, 189–230.
Padilla Rivera, J.: 1985, On the Definition of Binding Domains in the First Language Acquisition of Anaphora in Spanish. The Modular Role of Binding Principles and Lexical Factors, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Cornell University, Ithaca.
Packard, J.: 1981, First Language Acquisition of Headed and Headless Relatives in Mandarin Chinese, M. A. Thesis, Cornell University.
Piaget, J.: 1968, La formation du symbole chez I’enfant, Delachaux et Niestlé, Paris.
Piaget, J.: 1969 (tr. French, 1927), The Child’s Conception of Time, Ballantine Books, New York.
Piaget, J., and B. Inhelder: 1973, Memory and Intelligence, Basic Books, New York.
Potts, M.: 1970, A Test of Language Production, (technical report), Cornell University, Ithaca.
Potts, M., P. Carlson, R. Cocking, and C. Copple: 1979, Structure and Development in Child Language, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
Pratt, C., W. E. Tunmer, and J. A. Bowey: 1984, ‘Children’s capacity to correct grammatical violations in sentences’, Journal of Child Language 11, 129–141.
Rappe du Cher, E. L.: ‘A comparative genetic study of children’s comprehension of derived sentences’, unpublished manuscript, University of Geneva, Geneva.
Rodd, L. J., and Braine, M. D. S.: 1971, ‘Children’s imitations of syntactic constructions as a measure of linguistic competence’, Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 10, 430–443.
Roeper, T.: 1982, ‘The role of universals in the acquisition of gerunds’, in E. Wanner and L. Gleitman (eds.), Language Acquisition: The State of the Art, New York: Cambridge University Press, pp. 267–287.
Roeper, T.: to appear, ‘Formal and substantive features of language acquisition: Reflections on the subset principle and parametric variation’, in S. Steele (ed.) Cognitive Science, University of Arizona Press.
Scholes, R. J.: 1969, ‘The role of grammatically in the imitation of word strings by children and adults’, Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 8, 225–228.
Scholes, R. J.: 1970, ‘On functors and contentives in children’s imitations of word strings’, Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 9, 167–170.
Shatz, M.: 1978, ‘Children’s comprehension of their mother’s questions — directives’, in Journal of Child Language 5, 39–46.
Sinclair, H.: 1976, ‘Developmental Psycholinguistics’, in B. Inhelder and H. Chipman (eds.) Piaget and His School, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 189–204.
Sinclair, H., J. Berthoud-Papandropoulou, J. P. Bronckart, H. Chipman, E. Ferreiro, and E. Rappe DuCher: 1976, ‘Recherches en psycholinguistique genetique’, Archives de psychologie 44, 157–175.
Sinclair, A., R. J. Jarvella, and W. J. M. Levelt (eds.): 1978, The Child’s Conception of Language, Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
Slobin, D. I.: 1968, ‘Imitation and grammatical development in children’, in N. S. Endler, L. R. Boulter, and H Osser (eds.), Contemporary Issues in Developmental Psychology, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York, pp. 437–443.
Slobin, D. I.: 1973, ‘Cognitive prerequisites for the development of grammar’, in C. Ferguson and D. Slobin (eds.), Studies of Child Language Development, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, pp. 175–208.
Slobin, D. I. and C. Welsh: 1973, ‘Elicited imitation as a research tool in developmental psycho-linguistics’, in C. Ferguson and D. Slobin (eds.), Studies of Child Language Development, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, pp. 485–496.
Smith, C. S.: 1970, ‘An experimental approach to children’s linguistic competence’, in Hayes, J. (ed.), Cognition and the Development of Language, J. Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, pp. 109–135. Also published in C. A. Ferguson and D. I. Slobin (eds.), 1973, Studies of Child Language Development, Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York, pp. 497–521.
Smith, C. S.: to appear, ‘Factors of linguistic complexity and performance’, in A. Davidson and G. Greens (eds.), Critical Approaches to Readability, Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, Hillsdale.
Smith, C. S. and A. Van Kleeck: 1986, ‘Linguistic complexity and performance’, Journal of Child Language 13, 380–408.
Snyder, W.: 1987, Grammatical and Processing Factors in the First Language Acquisition of Embedding in Japanese, unpublished doctoral dissertation, Cornell University, Ithaca.
Solan, L.: 1981, ‘Fixing parameters: Language acquisition and language variation’, in J. Pustejovsky and V. Burke (eds.), Markedness and Learnability, University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in Linguistics, Vol. 6, pp. 121–136.
Solan, L.: 1983, Pronominal Reference: Child Language and the Theory of Grammar, D. Reidel, Dordecht.
Squire, L. R.: 1986, ‘Mechanisms of memory’, Science 232, 1612–1619.
Tager-Flusberg, H., deVilliers, J., Hakuta, K.: 1982, ‘The development of sentence coordination’, in S. Kuczaj II (ed.), Language Development Volume I: Syntax and Semantics, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, pp. 201–243.
Tavakolian, S.: 1977, Structural Principles in the Acquisition of Complex Sentences, unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Tavakolian, S. (ed.): 1981a, Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory, MIT Press, Cambridge.
Tavakolian, S.: 1981b, ‘The conjoined clause analysis of relative clauses’ in S. Tavakol¬ian (ed.), Language Acquisition and Linguistic Theory, MIT Press, Cambridge, pp. 167 - 187.
Theiman, T: 1975, ‘Imitation and recall of optionally deletable sentences by young children’, Journal of Child Language 2, 261–269.
Uzgiris, I.: 1984, ‘Imitation in infancy: Its interpersonal aspects’, in M. Perlmutter (ed.), The Minnesota Symposia on Child Psychology, Vol. 17, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale.
Valian, V.: 1979, The wherefores and therefores of the competence-performance distinction’, in B. Cooper and E. Walker (eds.), Sentence Processing, Erlbaum, Hillsdale.
Valian, V.: 1986, ‘Syntactic categories in the speech of young children’, Developmental Psychology 22, 562–579.
Wasow, T. : 1986, ‘Reflections on Anaphora’, in B. Lust (ed.) Studies in the Acquisition of Anaphora, Vol. I, Defining the Constraints, D. Reidel, Dordrecht, pp. 107–122.
Wexler, K., and Y-C. Chien: 1985, ‘The development of lexical anaphors and pronouns’, in Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, Vol. 24, Stanford University, 138–149.
Wexler, K., and M. R. Manzini: 1987, ‘Parameters and learnability in binding theory’, in T. Roeper and E. Williams (eds.), Parameters in Linguistic Theory, D. Reidel, Dordrecht.
Williams, H., and F. Nottebohm: 1985, ‘Auditory responses in avian vocal motor neurons: A motor theory for song perception in birds’, Science 229, 279–282.
Zurif, E. B.: 1980, ‘Language mechanisms: A neuropsychological perspective’, American Scientist 68, 305–311.
Zurif, E. B., and S. E. Blumstein: 1978, ‘Language and the brain’, in M. Halle, J. Bresnan, and G. A. Miller (eds.), Linguistic Theory and Psychological Reality, MIT Press, Cambridge, pp. 229–245.
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1987 D.Reidel Publishing Company
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Lust, B., Chien, YC., Flynn, S. (1987). What Children Know: Methods for the Study of First Language Acquisition. In: Lust, B. (eds) Studies in the Acquisition of Anaphora. Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3387-3_12
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3387-3_12
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-1-55608-023-4
Online ISBN: 978-94-009-3387-3
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive