Book Review: Language Acquisition: The Growth of Grammar

Clahsen, H. , Eisenbeiss, S. & Penke, M. (1996). Lexical learning in early syntactic development. In H. Clahsen (Ed.), Generative perspectives on language acquisition: Empirical findings, theoretical considerations and crosslinguistic comparisons (pp. 129–159). Amsterdam: Benjamins .

Clark, E. V. (1993). The lexicon in acquisition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press .

Demuth, K. (1989). Maturation, continuity and the acquisition of Sesotho passive . Language, 65, 56–80 .

Demuth, K. (1992). Accessing functional categories in Sesotho: Interactions at the morpho-syntax interface. In J. Meisel (Ed.), The acquisition of verb placement: Functional categories and V2 phenomena in language development (pp. 83–107). Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers .

Hamann, C. , Rizzi, L. & Frauenfelder, U. (1996). On the acquisition of subject and object clitics in French. In H. Clahsen (Ed.), Generative perspectives on language acquisition. Empirical findings, theoretical considerations & cross-linguistic comparisons (pp. 309–334). Amsterdam: John Benjamins .

Jakubowicz, C. (1989). Maturation or invariance of universal grammar principles in language acquisition . Probus: International Journal of Latin and Romance Linguistics, 3, 283–340 .

Lieven, E. V. M. , Behrens, H. , Speares, J. & Tomasello, M. (2003). Early syntactic creativity: A usage-based approach . Journal of Child Language, 30(2), 333–370 .

Lieven, E. V. M. , Pine, J. & Baldwin, G. (1997). Lexically-based learning and early grammatical development . Journal of Child Language, 24, 187–219 .

Marinis, T. (2000/2003). The acquisition of the DP in Modern Greek. Amsterdam: John Benjamins .

Mueller, N. , Crysmann, B. & Kaiser, G. A. (1996). Interactions between the acquisition of French object drop and the development of the C-system . Language Acquisition, 5(1), 35–63 .

Pine, J. M. & Lieven, E. V. M. (1997). Slot and frame patterns and the development of the determiner category . Applied Psycholinguistics, 18, 123–138 .

Tomasello, M. (1999). Early syntactic development: A construction grammar approach. In M. Barrett (Ed.), The development of language (pp. 161–190). Hove, UK: Psychology Press .

Tomasello, M. (2003). Constructing a language. A usage-based theory of language acquisition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press .

Tsimpli, I. M. (1992/1996). The prefunctional stage of first language acquisition: A crosslinguistic study. New York: Garland .

Varlokosta, S. , Vainikka, A. & Rohrbacher, B. (1998). Functional projections, markedness, and ‘root infinitives’ in early child Greek . The Linguistic Review, 15, 187–207 .

Weissenborn, J. (1994). Constraining the child’s grammar: Local well formedness in the development of verb movement in German and French. In B. Lust , M. Suñer & J. Whitman (Eds), Syntactic theory and first language acquisition – crosslinguistic perspectives: Volume 1 – Heads, projections and learnability (pp. 215–247). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum .