LINGUIST List 11.1050

Wed May 10 2000

Books: Lang Acquisition, Semantics, Phonology Teaching

Editor for this issue: Scott Fults <scottlinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Elliott A Moreton, Lang Acquisition: UMass Occasional Working Papers in Linguistics
2. Elliott A Moreton, Semantics: UMass Occasional Working Papers in Linguistics
3. Elliott A Moreton, New CD-ROM: Phonology (OT teaching materials)

(Working papers, language acquisition)

B. Hollebrandse (ed.), New Perspectives on Language Acquisition.
University of Massachusetts Occasional Working Papers in Linguistics
22 (UMOP 22). Book, $16. For ordering information, visit our Web
page: http://www.umass.edu/linguist/GLSA/

Part I: Early Stages of Language Acquisition 

* Powers: Binarity and Singularity in Child Grammar * Llinn *
Armon-Lottem: Agreement Mismatches and the Economy of Derivation *
Zuckerman: The Acquisition of Verb Movement in Hebrew *

Part II: Developing Representations I: Specificity, Apect, and Theory
of Mind 

* Schaeffer: The Interaction of Syntax and Pragmatics in the
Acquisition of Scrambling * T. P rez-Leroux: Specificity, Acquisition
of DPs, and the Development of a Theory of Mind * Wagner: What
Children Know When They know about Viewpoint Aspect: Aspect and Theory
of Mind * van Hout: On learning the Role of Direct Objects for
Telicity in Dutch and English *

Part III: Developing Representations II: Tense and Theory of Mind 

* Walsh Dickey, Johnson, Roeper and Seymour: Tense and Discourse in
African-American English * de Villiers: On Acquiring the Structural
Representations for False Complements* Hollebrandse: On Theory of Mind
and Sequence of Tense in Dutch *

Part IV: Later Stages in Child Language: Binding and Island behavior 

* Hestvik: Optimality Theory, Child Language and Logical Form *
Matsuo: Reciprocity and Binding in Early Child Grammar * Snyder, Chen,
Yamane, Laura Conway, and Hiramatsu: On the Nature of Children's
Left-Branch Violations * Abdulkarim, Roeper, and de Villiers: Negative
Islands in Language Acquisition * Roeper: Finding Fundamental
Operations in Language Acquisition: Formal features as triggers *

(Working papers, semantics)

E. Benedicto, M. Romero, & S. Tomioka (eds.) Proceedings of the
Workshop on Focus. University of Massachusetts Occasional Papers in
Linguistics 21 (UMOP 21). Book, $16. For ordering information, visit
our Web page: http://www.umass.edu/linguist/GLSA/

* Babko-Malaya: Context-Dependent Quantifiers Restricted by Focus *
Beck: On the Syntactic Expression of Topic and Rheme in Two Salishan
Languages * Buering: Topics and Disambiguation

E. Casiellas: FOCUS PREPOSING (it's called) * Goebbel: On the Syntax
of Focus-Movement in Romanian * Hajicovurger: Presupposition
vs. Assertion: a Neo-Davidsonian Account * Jelinek: Pronoun Classes
and Focus

Meier: Allegation under Negation in Causal Contexts * Ndayiragije:
TP-Internal Focus in Bantu and "Attract-F" * Romero: The P-set of a
Focused wh-word * Rudin, King & Izvorski: Focus in Bulgarian and
Russian Yes-No Questions * Shafer: Prosodic Phrasing and Focus: The
Bounded Projection Hypothesis * Sedivy, Tannenhaus & Carlson: Using
Contrast Sets to Resolve Reference On-line * Uechi: Focus Phrasing in
Japanese: An Optimality Approach * Wold: How to Interpret Multiple
Foci without Moving a Focused Constituent * Wu: Focus, Structure, and
Uniqueness Implications of the NP P with special reference to Mandarin
Chinese *

(Teaching materials, phonology)

J. McCarthy (University of Massachusetts). Introductory OT on CD-ROM,
Version 1.0. 60+ handouts and problem sets for teaching introductory
graduate Optimality Theory. CD contains several versions (HTML and
various word-processor formats). $10.

For more information (including a demonstration), or to order, visit
our Web page: http://www.umass.edu/linguist/GLSA/