Title: Constructions in acquisition /
Authors: Clark, Eve V.; Kelly, Barbara F.
Publisher: CSLI Publications,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Language acquisition.; Grammar, Comparative and general.
Contents: Contructions and acquisition / Eve V. Clark and Barbara F. Kelly -- The development of constructions through early gesture use / Barbara F. Kelly -- How gesture helps children construct language / Seyda Ozcaliskan and Susan Goldin-Meadow -- Frequent frames: simple co-occurrence constructions and their links to linguistic structure / Toben H. Mintz -- Producing multiword utterances / Elena Lieven -- The acquisition of verb compounding in Manadarin / Jidong Chen -- From holophrases to abstract grammatical constuctions: insights from simulation studies / Peter F. Dominey -- Interim solutions: the acquisition of early verb constuctions in Hindi / Nancy Budwig, Bhuvana Narasimhan and Smita Srivastava -- Learning argument structure constructions / Adele E. Goldberg and Devin Casenhiser -- Causative alternation errors as event-driven construction paradigm completions / Jean-Philippe Marcotte -- Caused motion constructions and semantic generality in early acquisition of French / Florence Chenu and Harriet Jisa -- Interactions in the development of constructions and the acquisition of world meanings / Judith C. Goodman and Nitya Sethuraman -- Building questions in Cantonese / Stephanie F. Stokes and Anita M.-Y. Wong -- The acquisition of complement clause constructions / Evan Kidd.