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  1. The Retreat from Locative Overgeneralisation Errors: A Novel Verb Grammaticality Judgment Study
  2. Why computational models are better than verbal theories: the case of nonword repetition
  3. Supporting Early Vocabulary Development: What Sort of Responsiveness Matters?
  4. Infinitives or bare stems? Are English-speaking children defaulting to the highest-frequency form?
  5. Do young children have adult-like syntactic categories? Zipf’s law and the case of the determiner
  6. Emotional force of languages in multilingual speakers in Finland
  7. Avoiding dative overgeneralisation errors: semantics, statistics or both?
  8. The retreat from overgeneralization in child language acquisition: word learning, morphology, and verb argument structure
  9. The development of abstract syntax: Evidence from structural priming and the lexical boost
  10. Computational modelling of phonological acquisition: Simulating error patterns in nonword repetition tasks
  11. Semantics versus statistics in the retreat from locative overgeneralization errors
  12. The roles of verb semantics, entrenchment, and morphophonology in the retreat from dative argument-structure overgeneralization errors
  13. Comprehension of Argument Structure and Semantic Roles: Evidence from English‐Learning Children and the Forced‐Choice Pointing Paradigm
  14. Children use verb semantics to retreat from overgeneralization errors: A novel verb grammaticality judgment study
  15. Lexicality and Frequency in Specific Language Impairment: Accuracy and Error Data from Two Nonword Repetition Tests
  16. Explaining quantitative variation in the rate of Optional Infinitive errors across languages: A comparison of MOSAIC and the Variational Learning Model
  17. A Semantics‐Based Approach to the “No Negative Evidence” Problem
  18. Simulating the Referential Properties of Dutch, German, and English Root Infinitives in MOSAIC
  19. Computer Simulations of Developmental Change: The Contributions of Working Memory Capacity and Long‐Term Knowledge
  20. Tense over time: testing the Agreement/Tense Omission Model as an account of the pattern of tense-marking provision in early child English
  21. Is Structure Dependence an Innate Constraint? New Experimental Evidence From Children's Complex‐Question Production
  22. The effect of verb semantic class and verb frequency (entrenchment) on children’s and adults’ graded judgements of argument-structure overgeneralization errors
  23. Linking working memory and long‐term memory: a computational model of the learning of new words
  24. Understanding the developmental dynamics of subject omission: the role of processing limitations in learning
  25. Testing the Agreement/Tense Omission Model using an elicited imitation paradigm
  26. Investigating the abstractness of children's early knowledge of argument structure
  27. Modeling the Development of Children's Use of Optional Infinitives in Dutch and English Using MOSAIC
  28. Note of clarification on the coding of light verbs in ‘Semantic generality, input frequency and the acquisition of syntax’ (Journal of Child Language 31, 61–99)
  29. T OMASELLO , M., Constructing a language: a usage-based theory of language acquisition . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. 388. Hardback, £29.95. ISBN 0-674-01030-2.
  30. Testing the Agreement/Tense Omission Model: why the data on children's use of non-nominative 3psg subjects count against the ATOM
  31. On the resolution of ambiguities in the extraction of syntactic categories through chunking
  32. The acquisition of auxiliary syntax: BE and HAVE
  33. Semantic generality, input frequency and the acquisition of syntax
  34. Determinants of acquisition order in wh-questions: re-evaluating the role of caregiver speech
  35. The development of inversion in wh-questions: a reply to Van Valin
  36. There is no evidence for a ‘no overt subject’ stage in early child Spanish: a note on Grinstead (2000)
  37. Going, going, gone: the acquisition of the verb ‘go’
  38. Does error-free use of French negation constitute evidence for Very Early Parameter Setting?
  39. The role of performance limitations in the acquisition of verb-argument structure: an alternative account
  40. Emergentism, parsimony and the development of process models of language acquisition
  41. Subject–auxiliary inversion errors and wh-question acquisition: ‘what children do know?’
  42. The Role of Performance Limitations in the Acquisition of “Mixed” Verbargument Structure at Stage I
  43. BRENT, M. R. (ed.). (1997). Computational approaches to language acquisition. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. Pp. 199. ISBN 0-262-52229-2.
  44. Subject–verb agreement in Brazilian Portuguese: what low error rates hide
  45. Comparing different models of the development of the English verb category
  46. Stylistic Variation at the "Single-Word" Stage: Relations between Maternal Speech Characteristics and Children's Vocabulary Composition and Usage
  47. Slot and frame patterns and the development of the determiner category
  48. Lexically-based learning and early grammatical development
  49. Observational and checklist measures of vocabulary composition: what do they mean?
  50. Syntactic categories in the speech of young children: the case of the determiner
  51. Variation in Vocabulary Development as a Function of Birth Order
  52. Environmental correlates of variation in lexical style: Interactional style and the structure of the input
  53. The language of primary caregivers
  54. Referential style and maternal directiveness: Different measures yield different results
  55. Individual differences in early vocabulary development: redefining the referential-expressive distinction
  56. How referential are ‘referential’ children? Relationships between maternal-report and observational measures of vocabulary composition and usage
  57. Referential style at thirteen months: why age-defined cross-sectional measures are inappropriate for the study of strategy differences in early language development
  58. Elizabeth Bates, Inge Bretherton & Lynn Snyder, From first'words to grammar: individual differences and dissociable mechanisms. Cambridge: C.U.P., 1988. Pp. xii + 326.