First language, 32 (4), November 2012

Articles

Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.; Baumwell, Lisa and Cristofaro, Tonia

Parent–child conversations during play

Head nodding and head shaking gestures in children’s early communication
Fusaro, Maria; Harris, Paul L. and Pan, Barbara A.

Early production of the passive in two Eastern Bantu languages
Alcock, Katherine J.; Rimba, Kenneth and Newton, Charles R. J. C.

Children’s acquisition of word order depends on syntactic/semantic role: Evidence from adjective-noun order
Nicoladis, Elena and Rhemtulla, Mijke

Mother–child talk during joint book reading in low-income American and Taiwanese families

Luo, Ya-Hui; Snow, Catherine E. and Chang, Chien-Ju

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First language, 32 (100), august 2012

Leyva, Diana; Elaine Reese and Marianne Wiser
Early understanding of the functions of print: Parent–child interaction and preschoolers’ notating skills

Zampini, Laura; Mirco Fasolo and Laura D’Odorico
Characteristics of maternal input to children with Down syndrome: A comparison with vocabulary size and chronological age-matched groups

Farrant, Brad M. and Stephen R Zubrick
Early vocabulary development: The importance of joint attention and parent-child book reading

Beyer, Tim and Carla L Hudson Kam
First and second graders’ interpretation of Standard American English morphology across varieties of English

Gampe,Anja; Kristin Liebal and Michael Tomasello
Eighteen-month-olds learn novel words through overhearing

Boloh, Yves; Frédérique Escudier; Stéphanie Royer, and Laure Ibernon
Determiners and noun endings in French children’s gender attribution choices







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First language, 32 (1-2), February-may 2012

Special Double Issue on Linguistic Interfaces and Language Acquisition in Childhood

Guest editors: Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes and Jason Rothman

Editorial Introduction

Jason Rothman and Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes

Linguistic interfaces and language acquisition in childhood: Introduction to the special issue

Articles

Demuth, Katherine; Meghan Patrolia; Jae Yung Song, and Matthew Masapollo

The development of articles in children’s early Spanish: Prosodic interactions between lexical and grammatical form

Zdorenko, Tatiana and Johanne Paradis

Articles in child L2 English: When L1 and L2 acquisition meet at the interface

Sekerina, Irina A. and John C. Trueswell

Interactive processing of contrastive expressions by Russian children

Liceras, Juana M.; Raquel Fernández Fuertes, and Anahí Alba de la Fuente

Overt subjects and copula omission in the Spanish and the English grammar of English–Spanish bilinguals: On the locus and directionality of interlinguistic influence

Stringer, David

The lexical interface in L1 acquisition: What children have to say about radical concept nativism

Cat, Cécile de

Explaining children’s over-use of definites in partitive contexts

Larrañaga, Pilar and Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes

Clitics in L1 bilingual acquisition

Bittner, Dagmar and Milena Kuehnast

Comprehension of intersentential pronouns in child German and child Bulgarian

Schmitz, Katrin; Marisa Patuto, and Natascha Müller

The null-subject parameter at the interface between syntax and pragmatics: Evidence from bilingual German–Italian, German–French and Italian–French children

Hyams, Nina

Eventivity effects in early grammar: The case of non-finite verbs

Commentaries

Owen Van Horne, Amanda J.

Overcoming language barriers: Interfaces between disciplines

Thornton, Rosalind

Studies at the interface of child language and models of language acquisition

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Journal of Child Language, 39 (2), march 2012

Articles

Is prosodic development correlated with grammatical and lexical development? Evidence from emerging intonation in Catalan and Spanish

Prieto, Pilar ; Ana Estrella ; Jill Thorson and Maria Del Mar Vanrell

Beyond syntactic priming: Evidence for activation of alternative syntactic structures

Vasilyeva, Marina and Heidi Waterfall

Nouns and verbs in Chintang: children's usage and surrounding adult speech

Stoll, Sabine ; Balthasar Bickel ;Elena Lieven, et al.

Toddlers learn words in a foreign language: the role of native vocabulary knowledge

Koenig, Melissa and Amanda L. Woodward

The impact of scaffolding and overhearing on young children's use of the spatial terms between and middle

Foster, Emily K. and Alycia M. Hund

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Second-first language acquisition: analysis of expressive language skills in a sample of girls adopted from China

Xing Tan, Tony ; Troy Loker ; Robert F. Dedrick and Kofi Marfo

Restrictions on addition: children's interpretation of the focus particles auch ‘also’ and nur ‘only’ in German

Berger, Frauke and Barbara Höhle

Early morphological productivity in Hungarian: evidence from sentence repetition and elicited production

Gábor, Bálint and Ágnes Lukács

Brief Research Reports

The shape-bias in Spanish-speaking children and its relationship to vocabulary

Hahn, Erin R. and Lisa Cantrell

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Journal of Child Language, 39 (1), january 2012

Articles

Dual language exposure and early bilingual development

Hoff, Erika ; Cynthia Core ;  Silvia Place ; Rosario Rumiche ; Melissa Señor and Marisol Parra

On-line sentence processing in Swedish: cross-linguistic developmental comparisons with French

Kail, Michèle ; Maria Kihlstedt and Philippe Bonnet

Acquiring diglossia: mutual influences of formal and colloquial Arabic on children's grammaticality judgments

Khamis-Dakwar, Reem ; Karen Froud and Peter Gordon

Speaker reliability in preschoolers' inferences about the meanings of novel words

Sobel, David M. ; Julie Sedivy ; David W. Buchanan and Rachel Hennessy

Extended Statistical Learning as an account for slow vocabulary growth

Stokes, Stephanie F. ; Sophie Kern and Christophe Dos Santos

Acquisition of generic noun phrases in Chinese: learning about lions without an ‘-s’

Tardif, Twila ; Susan A. Gelman ; Xiaolan Fu and Liqi Zhu

Individual differences in pronoun reversal: Evidence from two longitudinal case studies

Evans, Karen E. and Katherine Demuth

Brief Research Reports

Two-year-old children differentiate test questions from genuine questions

Gerlind Grosse and Michael Tomasello

Profiling vocabulary acquisition in Irish

O'toole, Ciara and Paul Fletcher

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Journal of Child Language, 38 (5) November 2011

Articles

Mutual exclusivity and phonological novelty constrain word learning at 16 months
Emily Mather and Kim Plunkett

Contributions of phonetic token variability and word-type frequency to phonological representations
Peter Richtsmeier, Louann Gerken and Diane Ohala

Investigating the effects of syllable complexity in Russian-speaking children with SLI
Darya Kavitskaya, Maria Babyonyshev, Theodore Walls and Elena Grigorenko

Children with Specific Language Impairment in Finnish: the use of tense and agreement inflections
Sari Kunnari, Tuula Savinainen-Makkonen, Laurence B. Leonard, Leena Mäkinen, Anna-Kaisa Tolonen, Mirja Luotonen and Eeva Leinonen

Infants' gestures influence mothers' provision of object, action and internal state labels
Janet Olson and Elise Frank Masur

Tuning information packaging: intonational realization of topic and focus in child Dutch
Aoju Chen

Brief Research Reports

A case-marking cue for filler–gap dependencies in children's relative clauses in Japanese
Takaaki Suzuki

Contending with foreign accent in early word learning*
Rachel Schmale, George Hollich and Amanda Seidl

Children aged 2 ; 1 use transitive syntax to make a semantic-role interpretation in a pointing task
Miriam Dittmar, Kirsten Abbot-Smith, Elena Lieven and Michael Tomasello

Emotional state talk and emotion understanding: a training study with preschool children
Ilaria Grazzani Gavazzi and Veronica Ornaghi

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First language, 31, 4 (98) November 2011

Articles

Sebastian P. Suggate, Elizabeth A. Schaughency, and Elaine Reese
The contribution of age and reading instruction to oral narrative and pre-reading skills

Melissa A. Smith
Everyday talk informs toddlers’ novel verb generalizations

Elgustus J. Polite
The contribution of part-word phonological factors to the production of regular noun plural –s by children with and without specific language impairment

Kristen Gillespie-Lynch, Patricia M. Greenfield, Heidi Lyn, and Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
The role of dialogue in the ontogeny and phylogeny of early symbol combinations: A cross-species comparison of bonobo, chimpanzee, and human learners

Aris Xanthos, Sabine Laaha, Steven Gillis, Ursula Stephany, Ayhan Aksu-Koç, Anastasia Christofidou, Natalia Gagarina, Gordana Hrzica, F. Nihan Ketrez, Marianne Kilani-Schoch, Katharina Korecky-Kröll, Melita Kovacˇevic´, Klaus Laalo, Marijan Palmovic´,
Barbara Pfeiler, Maria D. Voeikova, and Wolfgang U. Dressler
On the role of morphological richness in the early development of noun and verb inflection

Natacha Trudeau and Ann Sutton
Expressive vocabulary and early grammar of 16- to 30-month-old children acquiring Quebec French

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First language, vol. 31, no. 3 (97), august 2011

Articles

Bassano, Dominique ; Isabelle Maillochon ; Katharina Korecky-Kröll ; Marijn van Dijk ; Sabine Laaha ; Wolfgang U. Dressler and Paul van Geert
A comparative and dynamic approach to the development of determiner use in three children acquiring different languages

Pérez-Leroux, Ana T.; Mihaela Pirvulescu and Yves Roberge
Topicalization and object omission in child language

Lyn, Heidi ; Patricia M. Greenfield and E. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
Semiotic combinations in Pan: A comparison of communication in a chimpanzee and two bonobos

Scofield, Jason and Douglas A. Behrend
Clarifying the role of joint attention in early word learning

Saaristo-Helin, Katri; Sari Kunnari and Tuula Savinainen-Makkonen
Phonological development in children learning Finnish: A review

Book Reviews

Kidd, Evan
Origins of human communication

Scott-Phillips, Thomas C.
The evolution of human language: Biolinguistic perspectives

Kupisch, Tanja
The bilingual child: Early development and language contact

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First language, vol. 31, no. 2 (96), may 2011

Articles

Schiff, Rachel and Einav Lotem
Effects of phonological and morphological awareness on children’s word reading development from two socioeconomic backgrounds

Nelson, Keith E. ; Janet A. Welsh ; Elisabeth M. Vance Trup and Mark T. Greenberg
Language delays of impoverished preschool children in relation to early academic and emotion recognition skills

Evans, Mary Ann ; Kailey Reynolds ; Debora Shaw and Tiffany Pursoo
Parental explanations of vocabulary during shared book reading: A missed opportunity

Mehrani, Mehdi B.
What is biased? Children’s strategies or the structure of yes/no questions?

Aljenaie, Khawla ; Fauzia Abdalla ; and Mohammad Farghal
Developmental changes in using nominal number inflections in Kuwaiti Arabic

Book Reviews

Guijarro-Fuentes, Pedro
Hispanic child languages: Typical and impaired development

Campos, Gonzalo
Minimal answers: Ellipsis, syntax and discourse in the acquisition of European Portuguese

Messenger, Katherine
Child language: Acquisition and development






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First language, vol. 31, no. 1 (95), february 2011

Jane B. Childers
Attention to multiple events helps two-and-a-half-year-olds extend new verbs

Brad M. Farrant ; Murray T. Maybery, and Janet Fletcher
Socio-emotional engagement, joint attention, imitation, and conversation skill: Analysis in typical development and specific language impairment

Marinella Majorano and Laura D'Odorico
The transition into ambient language: A longitudinal study of babbling and first word production of Italian children

Christine S. Schipke and Christina Kauschke
Early word formation in German language acquisition: A study on word formation growth during the second and third years

Gretchen S. Lovas
Gender and patterns of language development in mother-toddler and father-toddler dyads

Josita Maouene ; Aarre Laakso, and Linda B. Smith
Object associations of early-learned light and heavy English verbs






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Journal of child language Vol. 38, No. 4, september 2011

Articles

Learning to liaise and elide comme il faut: evidence from bilingual children
Nicoladis, Elena and Johanne Paradis

Regular/irregular is not the whole story: the role of frequency and generalization in the acquisition of German past participle inflection
Szagun, Gisela

Competition between word order and case-marking in interpreting grammatical relations: a case study in multilingual acquisition
O'shannessy, Carmel

Lexical tone awareness among Chinese children with developmental dyslexia
Li, Wing-Sze and Connie Suk-Han Ho

When cues collide: children's sensitivity to letter- and meaning-patterns in spelling words in English
Deacon, S. H. ; D. Leblanc and C. Sabourin

Information tracking and encoding in early L1: linguistic competence vs. cognitive limitations
Cat, Cécile de

Vocabulary development in Greek children: a cross-linguistic comparison using the Language Development Survey
Papaeliou, Christina F. and Leslie A. Rescorla

Young children's understanding of markedness in non-verbal communication
Liebal, Kristin ; Malinda Carpenter and Michael Tomasello

Brief Research Report

Do newly formed word representations encode non-criterial information?
Curtin, Suzanne

The role of perceptual availability and discourse context in young children's question answering
Salomo, Dorothé ; Eileen Graf ; Elena Lieven and Michael Tomasello

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Journal of child language Vol. 38, No. 3, june 2011

Articles

Early verb learning in 20-month-old Japanese-speaking children
Oshima-Takane, Yuriko; Junko Ariyama ; Tessei Kobayashi ; Marina Katerelos and Diane Poulin-Dubois

Prelinguistic predictors of language development in children with autism spectrum disorders over four–five years
Bopp, Karen D. and Pat Mirenda

The role of input frequency and semantic transparency in the acquisition of verb meaning: evidence from placement verbs in Tamil and Dutch
Narasimhan, Bhuvana and Marianne Gullberg

Mastering inflectional suffixes: a longitudinal study of beginning writers' spellings*
Turnbull, Kathryn ; S. Hélène Deacon and Elizabeth Kay-Raining Bird

Bilingual children's acquisition of the past tense: a usage-based approach
Paradis,Johanne ; Elena Nicoladis ; Martha Crago and Fred Genesee

The role of working memory and contextual constraints in children's processing of relative clauses
Weighall, Anna R. and Gerry T. M. Altmann

Does size matter? Subsegmental cues to vowel mispronunciation detection
Mani, Nivedita and Kim Plunkett

Brief Research Report

The influence of part-word phonotactic probability/neighborhood density on word learning by preschool children varying in expressive vocabulary
Storkel, Holly L. and Jill R. Hoover

Cascading activation across levels of representation in children's lexical processing
Huang, Yi Ting and Jesse Snedeker

Verb argument structure acquisition in young children: defining a role for discourse
Naigles, Letitia R. and Ashley Maltempo

Proficiency with tense and aspect concordance: children with SLI and their typically developing peers
Owen, Amanda J.

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Journal of child language Vol. 38, No. 2, march 2011

The input ambiguity hypothesis and case blindness: an account of cross-linguistic and intra-linguistic differences in case errors
Pelham, Sabra D.

Orienting to third-party conversations
Martínez-Sussmann,Carmen ; Nameera Akhtar, Gil Diesendruck And Lori Markson

The Linguistic Affiliation Constraint and phoneme recognition in diglossic Arabic
Saiegh-Haddad, Elinor ; Iris Levin, Nareman Hende And Margalit Ziv

Phonological development of word-initial Korean obstruents in young Korean children
Kim, Minjung And Carol Stoel-Gammon

Parental numeric language input to Mandarin Chinese and English speaking preschool children
Chang, Alicia ; Catherine M. ; Sandhofer, Lauren Adelchanow and Benjamin Rottman

Semantic categorization and reading skill across Dutch primary grades: development yes, relationship no
Gijsel, Martine A. R. ; Ellen A. Ormel ; Daan Hermans ; L. Verhoeven and Anna M. T. Bosman

On the interaction of deaffrication and consonant harmony
Dinnsen, Daniel A. ; Judith A. Gierut ; Michele L. Morrisette ; Christopher R. Green and Ashley W. Farris-Trimble

The dynamics of syntax acquisition: facilitation between syntactic structures
Keren-Portnoy, Tamar And Michael Keren

Children's command of plural and possessive marking on Hebrew nouns: a comparison of obligatory versus optional inflections
Schiff, Rachel ; Dorit Ravid and Shany Levy-Shimon






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Journal of child language Vol. 38, No. 1, january 2011

Articles

Gender-marked determiners help Dutch learners' word recognition when gender information itself does not
Van Heugten, Marieke and Elizabeth K. Johnson

Interrelations between communicative behaviors at the outset of speech: parents as observers
Dromi, Esther and Anat Zaidman-Zait

Concurrent and predictive validity of the Galician CDI
Pérez-Pereira, Miguel and Mariela Resches

Rethinking the acquisition of relative clauses in Italian: towards a grammatically based account
Adani, Flavia

Successive single-word utterances and use of conversational input: a pre-syntactic route to multiword utterances
Herr-Israel, Ellen and Lorraine Mccune

Object movement in preschool children's word learning
Scofield, Jason ; Andrea Miller and Travis Hartin

Maternal label and gesture use affects acquisition of specific object names
Zammit, Maria and Graham Schafer





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First language, vol. 30, no. 1 (92), february 2010

Articles

Dorit Ravid and Ruth A. Berman
Developing Noun Phrase Complexity at School Age: A Text-Embedded Cross-Linguistic Analysis

Dorit Ravid and Ronit Levie
Hebrew Adjectives in Later Language Text Production

Ellen H. Courtney
Learning the Meaning of Verbs: Insights from Quechua

Kirsten Abbot-Smith and Michael Tomasello
The Influence of Frequency and Semantic Similarity on How Children Learn Grammar

Simona Montanari
Translation Equivalents and the Emergence of Multiple Lexicons in Early Trilingual Development



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Journal of child language Vol. 36, No. 5, november 2009

Articles

Paola Uccelli
Emerging temporality: past tense and temporal/aspectual markers in Spanish-speaking children's intra-conversational narratives

Stanka A. Fitneva, Morten H. Christiansen and Padraic Monaghan
From sound to syntax: phonological constraints on children's lexical categorization of new words

Inge-Marie Eigsti and Loisa Bennetto
Grammaticality judgments in autism: Deviance or delay

Marit Westergaard
Usage-based vs. rule-based learning: the acquisition of word order in wh-questions in English and Norwegian

Virginia Slaughter, Candida C. Peterson and Malinda Carpenter
Maternal mental state talk and infants' early gestural communication

Sabine Stoll and Stefan Th. Gries
How to measure development in corpora? An association strength approach

Minna Kirjavainen, Anna Theakston and Elena Lieven
Can input explain children's me-for-I errors?

Twila Tardif, Paul Fletcher, Weilan Liang and Niko Kaciroti
Early vocabulary development in Mandarin (Putonghua) and Cantonese

Brief Research Report

Jennifer A. Zapf and Linda B. Smith
Knowing more than one can say: The early regular plural

Suzanne Curtin
Twelve-month-olds learn novel word–object pairings differing only in stress pattern



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First language Vol. 29, No. 91 november 2009

Catherine Ann Cameron and Judith Hutchison
Telephone-mediated communication effects on young children’s oral and written narratives

Anja Müller, Barbara Höhle, Michaela Schmitz, and Jürgen Weissenborn
Information structural constraints on children’s early language production: The acquisition of the focus particle auch (‘also’) in German-learning 12- to 36-month-olds

Daniela K. O'Neill, Rebecca M. Main, and Renata A. Ziemski
‘I like Barney’: Preschoolers’ spontaneous conversational initiations with peers

Franklin Chang, Tessei Kobayashi, and Shigeaki Amano
Social factors in the acquisition of a new word order



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Journal of child language Vol. 36, No. 4 september 2009

Maya Hickmann, Pierre Taranne and Philippe Bonnet
Motion in first language acquisition: manner and path in french and english child language

Virginia Valian, Stephanie Solt and John Stewart
Abstract categories or limited-scope formulae? The case of children's determiners

Suvi Stolt, Leena Haataja, Helena Lapinleimu and Liisa Lehtonen
Associations between lexicon and grammar at the end of the second year in finnish children

Karla K. Mcgregor, Katharina J. Rohlfing, Allison Bean and Ellen Marschner
Gesture as a support for word learning: the case of under

Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul and Ted Sanders
The emergence of Dutch connectives; how cumulative cognitive complexity explains the order of acquisition

Tuuli Salonen and Minna Laakso
Self-repair of speech by four-year-old finnish children


Brief Research Report

Fabienne Chetail and Stephanie Mathey
Activation of syllable units during visual recognition of french words in grade 2

Suzy Styles and Kim Plunkett
What is ‘word understanding’ for the parent of a one-year-old? Matching the difficulty of a lexical comprehension task to parental di report

Huei-Mei Liu, Feng-Ming Tsao and Patricia K. Kuhl
Age-related changes in acoustic modifications of mandarin maternal speech to preverbal infants and five-year-old children: a longitudinal study

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Journal of child language Vol. 36, No. 3 june 2009

Ineta Savickienė, Vera Kempe and Patricia J. Brooks
Acquisition of gender agreement in Lithuanian: Exploring the effect of diminutive usage in an elicited production task

Mary K. Fagan
Mean Length of Utterance before words and grammar: Longitudinal trends and developmental implications of infant vocalizations

Sevda Bahtiyar and Aylin C. Küntay
Integration of communicative partner's visual perspective in patterns of referential requests

Jean-Pierre Chevrot, Celine Dugua and Michel Fayol
Liaison acquisition, word segmentation and construction in French: a usage-based account

Simona Montanari
Pragmatic differentiation in early trilingual development

Osnat Segal, Bracha Nir-Sagiv, Liat Kishon-Rabin and Dorit Ravid
Prosodic patterns in Hebrew child-directed speech

Brief Research Report

Ravit Cohen-Mimran
The contribution of language skills to reading fluency: A comparison of two orthographies for Hebrew

Elizabeth S. Nilsen, Susan A. Graham and Tamara Pettigrew
Preschoolers' word mapping: The interplay between labelling context and specificity of speaker information

Megan M. Saylor and C. Brooke Carroll
Direct and indirect cues to knowledge states during word learning

First language Vol. 29, No. 90 august 2009

Jennifer Yusun Kang, Young-Suk Kim, and Barbara Alexander Pan
Five-year-olds' book talk and story retelling: contributions of mother—child joint bookreading

RosieVan Veen, Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul, Ted Sanders, and Huub van den Bergh
Parental input and connective acquisition: a growth curve analysis

Khazriyati Salehuddin and Heather Winskel
An investigation into Malay numeral classifier acquisition through an elicited production task

Minna Kirjavainen, Anna Theakston, Elena Lieven, and Michael Tomasello
"I want hold postman pat": an investigation into the acquisition of infinitival marker "to"