Preface ix // SECTION I: MODELING CHILDREN’S LANGUAGE PERFORMANCE 1 // 1 / Child Talk: Assumptions of a Developmental Process Model for Early Language Learning 3 // 2 / Children Listening: The Role of World Knowledge in Language Comprehension 20 by Linda M. Milosky // 3 / Three Perspectives On Language Processing: Interactionism, Modularity, and Hoism 45 by Alan G. Kamhi // SECTION II: INTERACTIVE PROCESSES IN PHONOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT 65 // 4 / Phonological Development as Biology and Behavior 67 by Raymond D. Kent // 5 / The Integration of Speech Motor Control and Language Formulation in Process Models of Acquisition 86 by Edythe A. Strand // 6 / Nonlinear Phonology as a Framework for Phonological Acquisition 108 by Richard G. Schwartz // 7 / The Role of Prosodic Variables in Language Processing by Children With Specific Language Impairment 125 by Susan Ellis Weismer // SECTION III: INTERACTIVE PROCESSES IN LEXICAL ACQUISITION 139 // 8 / Adult-Based Models of the Lexical Long-Term Store: Issues for Language Acquisition and Disorders 141 by Christine A. Dollaghan // 9 / Fast Mapping: A New Look at Word Learning 159 by Elizabeth R. Crais // 10 / The Use of Morphology by Children With Specific Language Impairment: Evidence From Three Languages 186 by Laurence B. Leonard // 11 / Lexical Development in Young Children With Down Syndrome 202 by Jon F. Miller //
SECTION IV: INTERACTIVE PROCESSES IN SYNTACTIC DEVELOPMENT 217 // 12 / Context Priming of Sentence Structure 219 by Nancy W. Streim // 13 / Speech-Language Interactions in the Talk of Young Children 235 by Rhea Paul // SECTION V: INTERACTIVE PROCESSES IN PRAGMATIC DEVELOPMENT 255 // 14 / Speech Act Development in Nondisabled Children and Individuals With Mental Retardation 257 by Leonard Abbeduto and Glenis Benson // 15 / Individuals With Autism: Language Acquisition With Restricted Social and Emotional Knowledge 279 by Nanette A. Negri // Index 299