Language Development: The Essential Readings

1. Peter W. Jusczyk: Finding and Remembering Words: Some Beginnings by English-Learning Infants from Current Directions in Psychological Science, 1997, Volume 6, 170-174.

2. Janet F. Werker and Renée N: Desjardins. Listening to Speech in the 1^st Year of Life: Experiential Influences on Phoneme Perception from Current Directions in Psychological Science, 1995, Volume 4, 76-81.

3. Franck Ramus, Marc D. Hauser, Cory Miller, Dylan Morris, Jacques Mehler: Language Discrimination by Human Newborns and by Coton-Top Tamarin Monkeys from Science, 2000, Volume 288, 349-351.

4. R. L. Gómez and L. A. Gerken: Infant artificial language learning and language acquisition from Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2000, 4, 178.186.

5. Anne Fernald, John P. Pinto, Daniel Swingley, Amy Weinberg, and Gerald W. McRoberts: Rapid Gains in Speed of Verbal Processing by Infants in the 2^nd Year from Psychological Science, 1998, Volume 9, 228-231.

Part II: Introduction to Word learning:.

6. Helen I. Shwe and Ellen M. Markman: Young Children's Appreciation of the Mental Impact of Their Communicative Signals from Developmental Psychology, 1997, Volume 33, 630-636.

7. Maria Cristina Caselli et al: Lexical Development in English and Italian from Cognitive Development, 1995.

8. Michael Tomasello: Perceiving Intentions an Learning Words in the Second Year of Life in: M. Bowerman and S. Levinson (Eds.), Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development, 2000, Cambridge University Press.

9. Lori Markson and Paul Bloom: Evidence Against a Dedicated System for Word Learning in Children from Nature, 1997, Volume 385, 813-815.

10. Elizabeth Bates, Judith C. Goodman: On the Inseparability of Grammar and the Lexicon: Evidence from Acquisition, Aphasia and Real-Time Processing from Language and Cognitive Processes, 1997, 507-584.

Part III: Introduction to Grammatical Development:.

11. Michael Tomasello: The Item-Based Nature of Children's Early Syntactic Development from Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2000, Volume 4, 156-163.

12. Nameera Akhtar: Acquiring Basic Word Order: Evidence for Data-Driven Learning of Syntactic Structure from Journal of Child Language, 1999, Volume 26, 339-356.

13. Klaus-Michael Koepcke: The Acquisition of Plural Marking in English and German Revisited: Schemata Versus Rules from Journal of Child Language, 1998, Volume 25, 293-319.

14. Nancy Budwig: An Exploration Into Children's Use of Passives from Linguistics, 1990, Volume 28, 1221-1252.

15. Lois Bloom, Matthew Rispoli, Barbara Gartner, and Jeremie Hafitz: Acquisition of Complementation from Journal of Child Language, 1989, Volume 16, 101-120.

16. Dan I. Slobin: Form/Function Relations: How Do Children Find Out What They Are? in: M. Bowerman and S. Levinson (Eds.), Language Acquisition and Conceptual Development, 2000, Cambridge University Press.

Part IV: Brain, Genes, & Computation in Language Development:.

17. Jeffrey. L. Elman: Connectionism and Language Acquisition.

18. Barbara Clancy and Barbara Finlay: Neural Correlelates of Early Language Learning Excerpted from E. Bates, D. Thal, B.L. Finlay, and B. Clancy: Early Language Development and its Neural Correlates (in press) Early Language Development and its Neural Correlates to Appear in I. Rapin and S. Segalowitz (Eds.), Handbook of Neuropsychology, Volume 6, Child Neurology (2^nd edition). Amsterdam: Elsevier.

19. Annette Karniloff-Smith: Development Itself Is the Key to Understanding Developmental Disorders from Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 1998, Volume 2, 389-398.