Language and Speech articles from March 2008

Language and Speech archives from March 2008

Preface.
March 1, 2008... The papers appearing in this double special issue were presented at the Latsis Colloque "Early Language Development and Disorders" (ELDD). This conference which took place from January 26 28, 2006, was organized by members of the University of...

Phonological specificity of vowel contrasts at 18-months.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Abstract Previous research has shown that English infants are sensitive to mispronunciations of vowels in familiar words by as early as 15-months of age. These results suggest that not only are infants sensitive to large mispronunciations...

Do 11-month-old French infants process articles?(Report)
March 1, 2008... Abstract The first part of this study examined (Parisian) French-learning 11-month-old infants' recognition of the six definite and indefinite French articles: le, la, les, un, une, and des. The six articles were compared with...

Inflectional bootstrapping in 2-year-olds.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Abstract The theory of syntactic bootstrapping proposes that children can use syntax to infer the meanings of words. This paper presents experimental evidence that children are also able to use word inflections to infer word reference....

Bootstrapping lexical and syntactic acquisition.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Abstract This paper focuses on how phrasal prosody and function words may interact during early language acquisition. Experimental results show that infants have access to intermediate prosodic phrases (phonological phrases) during the...

The Delay of Principle B Effect (DPBE) and its absence in some languages.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Abstract The Delay of Principle B Effect (DPBE) has been discussed in various studies that show that children around age 5 seem to violate Principle B of Binding Theory (Chomsky, 1981, and related works), when the antecedent of the pronoun...

Scope-marking strategies in the acquisition of long distance wh-questions in French and Dutch.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Abstract This paper reports the results of an elicited production task of Long Distance (LD) wh-questions conducted with typically developing French- and Dutch-speaking children aged four and six, and adult control groups for each...

An event-structural account of passive acquisition in Korean.(Report)
March 1, 2008... Abstract Some peculiar properties of children's passives have long been observed in various languages such as an asymmetry between actional passives and nonactional passives. These peculiarities have been accounted for under the hypothesis...

The interpretation of disjunction in universal grammar.
March 1, 2008... Abstract Child and adult speakers of English have different ideas of what 'or' means in ordinary statements of the form 'A or B'. Even more far-reaching differences between children and adults are found in other languages. This tells us...