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List of contents
Contents: A. Aksu-Koç, C.E. Johnson, K.E. Nelson, Preface. M. Aparici, E. Serrat, M. Capdevila, M. Serra, Acquisition of Complex Sentences in Spanish- and Catalan-Speaking Children. M. Almgren, A. Barrena, Bilingual Acquisition and Separation of Linguistic Codes: Ergativity in Basque Versus Accusativity in Spanish. N. Budwig, S. Stein, C. O'Brien, Non-Agent Subjects in Early Child Language: A Crosslinguistic Comparison. A.T. Perez-Leroux, Subjunctive Mood in Spanish Child Relatives: At the Interface of Linguistic and Cognitive Development. C. Day, A Developmental Perspective on Modal Verb Use by French-Speaking Children. K. Nelson, J. Welsh, S. Camarata, T. Tjus, A Rare Event Transactional Model of Tricky Mix Conditions Contributing to Language Acquisition and Varied Communicative Delays. S.M. Suzman, Contrast, the No-Blur Principle, and the Acquisition of Zulu. P. Zukow-Goldring, Perceiving Referring Actions: Latino and Euro-American Infants and Caregivers Comprehending Speech. A. Peltzer-Karpf, R. Zangl, Figure-Ground Segregation in Visual and Linguistic Development: A Dynamic Systems Account. K.E. Nelson, A. Aksu-Koç, C.E. Johnson, Commentaries.
Summary
This volume presents chapters that all speak to issues of children's lang. acquisition from a distinctly interactionist perspective that reflects the complexity of the task & the sophistication of methods used to study it. For graduate
