Grammaticalization and First Language Acquisition -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- The study of early comprehension in language development -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Which methods for which purposes -- 2.1 Classic off-line methods of comprehension -- 2.1.1 The acting-out technique -- 2.1.2 The picture-pointing technique -- 2.1.3 Parental reports as instruments in the study of vocabulary growth: The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) -- 2.2 The Intermodal Preferential Looking Paradigm: an off-line/on-line paradigm -- 2.3 On-line methods -- 2.3.1 Eye tracking methods -- 2.3.2 Event-related brain potentials -- 3. Some new directions in early language comprehension -- 3.1 Early syntactic comprehension and task dependence -- 3.2 New insights on comprehension/production asymmetries in early language acquisition -- 3.3 Variability in processing speed during early comprehension and its implications -- 4. Conclusion -- References -- Résumé -- The acquisition of nominal determiners in French and German -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Determiner systems in French and Austrian German -- 3. The acquisition of determiners and the Germanic vs. Romance contrast -- 4. Objectives and hypotheses -- 5. Method -- 5.1 Participants and data collection -- 5.2 Coding -- 6. Results -- 6.1 The development of the determiner use constraint -- 6.2 The establishment of determiner systems: morphosyntactic dimensions -- 6.2.1 Determiner classes and their distribution -- 6.2.2 Definite and indefinite articles: gender and number, salience -- 6.2.3 Incorrect determiners -- 7. Discussion -- 7.1 Cross-linguistic variation in the acquisition of determiners -- 7.2 The prominence hypotheses: (In)definiteness, gender, number -- 8. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Abstract.

Exploring patterns of adaptation in child-directed speech during the process of early grammaticalization in child language -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Adaptation between child language and child-directed speech -- 1.2 Research questions -- 1.3 Methodology: Analyzing individual patterns of development -- 2. Methods -- 2.1 Participants -- 2.2 Data collection -- 2.3 Coding system -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Inter-individual differences: exploratory curve analysis -- 3.1.1 Utterance length -- 3.1.2 Noun proportion in vocabulary -- 3.1.3 Determiner use and omission -- 3.2 Analyzing local variability -- 3.3 Analyzing global patterns of variability -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 Summary of the results -- 4.2 Individual differences in CDS -- 4.3 Methodological considerations -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Résumé -- Sonority, gender and the impact of suffix predictability on the acquisition of German noun plurals -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 German noun plurals in acquisition -- 1.2 Sonority, gender and suffix predictability -- 1.3 Predictions -- 2. Method -- 2.1 Participants -- 2.2 Materials -- 2.3 Procedure -- 2.4 Transcription and coding -- 3. Results -- 3.1 General analysis of children's responses -- 3.2 Analysis of children's correct suffix production -- 3.3 Analysis of children's erroneous suffix production -- 4. Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Résumé -- Appendix -- The impact of typological factors in monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Verbalisations of spatial information -- 3. Motion events in language acquisition -- 3.1 General developmental factors -- 3.2 Typological factors -- 3.3 The relevance of simultaneous bilingualism -- 3.4 Predictions -- 4. Methodology -- 4.1 Participants -- 4.2 Material -- 4.3 Procedure -- 4.3 Coding -- 4.3.1 Semantic Density -- 4.3.2 Information Locus -- 5. Results.

5.1 Semantic Density -- 5.1.1 Semantic Density: Monolingual children -- 5.1.2 Semantic Density: Bilingual children -- 5.2 Information Locus -- 5.2.1 Information Locus: Monolingual children -- 5.2.2 Information Locus: Bilingual children -- 6. Discussion and conclusions -- References -- Résumé -- Appendix: Overview of target items -- Developmental perspectives on the expression of motion in speech and gesture -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Speaking about motion across languages -- 1.2 Implications for language and cognitive development -- 1.3 Relating gestures and speech in language acquisition -- 2. Method -- 2.1 Participants -- 2.2 Materials -- 2.3 Procedure -- 2.4 Coding -- 2.4.1 Speech -- 2.4.2 Gestures -- 2.4.3 Statistical analyses -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Speech in the large sample -- 3.2 Speech in the sub-sample -- 3.3 Gestures in the sub-sample -- 3.4 Speech-gesture co-expressivity -- 3.4.1 Co-expressivity at the clause level -- 3.4.2 Co-expressivity in exactly temporally aligned speech -- 4. Discussion -- 4.1 Speech and gesture during language acquisition -- 4.2 Language and cognition across child languages: future directions -- 5. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Résumé -- Appendix: Stimuli used in the experiment -- Language-specificity of motion event expressions in young Korean children -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Adult grammar for expressing Motion Events -- 1.2 Korean grammar for expressing Motion event -- 1.2.1 Serial Verb Constructions -- 1.2.2 Postpositional markers -- 1.2.3 Manner adverbs -- 1.3 Learning to express motion events: Previous findings and predictions -- 2. Database and methodology -- 2.1 Database -- 2.2 Coding -- 2.3 Analysis -- 3. Results -- 3.1 Distribution of motion information: 'Verb alone' vs. 'verb and other devices' -- 3.2 Semantic content of motion expressed in verb.

3.3 Semantic content of motion expressed in other devices -- 3.3.1 Children's uses of postpositional markers -- 3.3.2 Adverbs expressing Manner of Motion -- 3.3.3 Proportions of location, path, and manner expressed in other devices -- 3.4 Utterance density -- 4. Summary and discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Résumé -- Index.