Table of Contents

1. Introduction (by Weissenborn, Jurgen); 2. Part I: Early Word Learning and its Prerequisites; 3. Bootstrapping from the Signal: Some Further Directions (by Jusczyk, Peter W.); 4. Contributions of Prosody to Infants' Segmentation and Representation of Speech (by Echols, Catharine H.); 5. Implicit Memory Support for Language Acquisition (by Fisher, Cynthia); 6. How Accessible is the Lexicon in Motherese? (by Bernstein Ratner, Nan); 7. Bootstrapping a First Vocabulary (by Gleitman, Lila); 8. Infants' Developing Competence in Recognizing and Understanding Words in Fluent Speech (by Fernald, Anne); 9. Lemma Structure in Language Learning: Comments on Representation and Realization (by McKee, Cecile); 10. Part II: From Input Cues to Syntactic Knowledge; 11. Signal to Syntax: Building a Bridge (by Gerken, LouAnn); 12. A Reappraisal of Young Children's Knowledge of Grammatical Morphemes (by Golinkoff, Roberta Michnick); 13. Predicting Grammatical Classes from Phonological Cues: An Empirical Test (by Durieux, Gert); 14. Pre-lexical Setting of the Head: Complement Parameter through Prosody (by Guasti, Maria Teresa); 15. Discovering Word Order Regularities: The Role of Prosodic Information for Early Parameter Setting (by Hohle, Barbara); 16. On the Prosody/Lexicon Interface in Learning Word Order: A Study of Normally Developing and Language Impaired Children (by Penner, Zvi); 17. Index