Language Acquisition

1. Introduction
Susan Foster-Cohen

Part 1. Explaining Language Acquisition

2. Word Learning and the Origins of Phonological Systems
Marilyn Vihman

3. Cracking the Language Code: Processing Strategies in First Language Acquisition
Ann M. Peters

4. The Inevitability of Child Directed Speech
Matthew Saxton

5. Universal Grammar Approaches to Language Acquisition
Maria Teresa Guasti

6. Second Language Acquisition
Susan Gass

Part 2. Windows on Language Acquisition

7. Language and the Many Faces of Emotion
Judy S. Reilly

8. Complements Enable Representation of the Contents of False Beliefs: The Evolution of a Theory of Theory of Mind
Jill G. Villiers, Peter A. Villiers

9. Going Beyond Semantics: The Development of Pragmatic Enrichment
Nausicaa Pouscoulous, Ira A. Noveck

10. The Acquisition of Phrasal Vocabulary
Koenraad Kuiper, Georgie Columbus, Norbert Schmitt

Part 3. Language Acquisition, Culture and Linguistic Diversity

11. Language Development in Simultaneous Bilingual Children
Natascha Müller

12. Universals and Cross-Linguistic Variability in Children’s Discourse
Maya Hickmann

13. Trends in Research on Narrative Development
Ruth A. Berman

14. Family Literacy Activities: What is, What Ought to be and the Role of Parents’ Ideas
Stuart McNaughton, Meaola Amituanai-Toloa, ‘Ema Wolfgramm-Foliaki

Nyckelord: Education, Language Teaching, Linguistics, general, Language Education, Cognitive Psychology, Psycholinguistics, Applied Linguistics