Reading List

Ambridge, B., & Lieven, E. V. M. (2011). Child Language Acquisition: contrasting theoretical approaches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Ambridge, B., Theakston, A. L., Lieven, E. V. M., & Tomasello, M. (2006). The distributed learning effect for children's acquisition of abstract syntactic construction. 
Cognitive Development, 21(2), 174-193.

Bodrova, E., & Leong, D. J. (2006). 
Tools of the Mind: The Vygotskian Approach to Early Childhood Education London: Allyn and Bacon.

Bruner, J. (1983). 
Child's talk. New York: Norton.

Childers, J., & Tomasello, M. (2001). The role of pronouns in young children's acquisition of the English transitive construction. 
Developmental Psychology, 37, 739-748.

Chomsky, N. (1959). A review of B. F. Skinner's 
Verbal BehaviourLanguage 35(1), 26-58.

Clahsen, H. (2009). Chomskyan Syntactic Theory and Language Disorders. In M. J. Ball, M. R. Perkins, N. Müller & S. Howard (Eds.), 
The Handbook of Clinical Linguistics Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Croft, W., & Cruse, A. (2004). 
Cognitive linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Dabrowska, E. (2010). Productivity, proceduralisation and SLI: comment on Hsu and Bishop. 
Human Development, 53, 276-284.

Guasti, M. T. (2004). 
Language acquisition: the growth of grammar. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Lieven, E. V. M., Pine, J. M., & Baldwin, G. (1997). Lexically-based learning and early grammatical development. 
Journal of Child Language, 19(2), 187-219.

Morrison, C. M., Hirsh, K. W., & Duggan, G. B. (2003). Age of acquisition, ageing, and verb production: normative and experimental data.
 Quarterly Journal Of Experimental Psychology Section A-Human Experimental Psychology, 56(4), 705-730.

Paget Gorman Society. Paget Gorman Signed Speech. Retrieved April, 2012, from 
http://www.pagetgorman.org/what-is-pgss

Piaget, J. (1952). 
The origins of intelligence in children. New York: Norton.

Rice, M. L., Wexler, K., & Cleave, P. (1995). Specific language impairment as a period of extended optional infinitive. 
Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 38, 850-863.

Tomasello, M. (1999). 
The cultural origins of human cognition. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.

Tomasello, M. (2003). 
Constructing a language: A usage based theory of language acquisition. London: Harvard University Press.

Tomasello, M. (2006). Acquiring linguistic constructions. In D. Kuhn & R. Siegler (Eds.), 
Handbook of Child Psychology (pp. 225-298). New York: Wiley.

van der Lely, H. K. J. (2003a). Do heterogeneous deficits require heterogeneous theories? SLI subgroups and the RDDR hypothesis. In Y. Levy (Ed.), 
Language competence across populations: Toward a definition of specific language impairment (pp. 111-133). Mahwah, NJ: Laurence Erlbaum Associates.

van der Lely, H. K. J. (2003b). SLI as a representational deficit in dependent relations: Evidence from English. . In C. Jakubowicz, L. Nash & K. Wexler (Eds.), 
Essays on Syntax morphology and phonology in SLI. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.

van der Lely, H. K. J., & Battell, J. (2003). WH-movement in children with grammatical SLI: A test of the RDDR hypothesis. 
Language, 79(1), 153-181.

Wexler, K. (2003). Lenneberg's dream: Learning, normal language development, and specific language development. In Y. Levy (Ed.), 
Language competence across populations: Toward a definition of specific language impairment. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Whitworth, A. B. (1995). Characterising thematic role assignment in aphasic sentence production: procedures for elicited and spontaneous output. 
International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 30(3), 384-399.