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Brooks, P.
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Browman, C.
187

Brown, G.
239

Brown, R.
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144
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213
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242
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243

budgerigars
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28

Buffery, A.W.H.
48

Butterworth, B.
214

Buzz (dolphin)
25

6

Bybee, J.
243

Canadian immigrants, accents of
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1

canonical sentoid strategy
193

5
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,
204

Caplan, D.
47
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51
,
244

caregiver language
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8

Carey, P.
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Carey, S.
237

Carroll, Lewis
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151
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167
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185
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190
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212
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221
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234

Cazden, C.
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centre-embedded sentences
194

5

cerebral hemispheres
44

8
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78

Chafe, W.
239

chain complex
101

Chambers, J.K.
81

Chantek (orang-utan)
241

Chelsea (language-retarded adult)
78

9
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80

Cheney, D.L.
19

Chiat, S.
242

child language
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22
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6
; acquisition processes
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14
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; canonical sentoid strategy
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; children’s beliefs about language
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1
; communicative competence xix; compared with ape communication
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34
; development of
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; further reading
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3
; inconsistency in
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; innate language capacity
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; learning processes
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50
; negatives
75
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16
; one-word utterances
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72
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77
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4
; repairs
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2
; speech errors
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228
; structure dependence
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9
; two-word utterances
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10
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129
;
see also
acquisition of language

child-directed speech
65

6
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134

8
,
243

chimps
28

37
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38
,
241
; brain-body ratio
43
; intelligence
18
; mind-reading
27
,
57

8

Chinese
71

Choi, S.
237

choking
42

Chomsky, C.
76

Chomsky, N.
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16
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223
; apes’ language capacity
38
; backward processing
209
; deep structure hypothesis
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; Emperor of Jupiter example
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; hypothesis testing
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120

1
; innate language capacity
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15

16
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83

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; ‘internal structure’
82
; internalized grammar
151
; knowledge of language
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8

9
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124

5
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167
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168

70
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174
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179
,
183
; language usage
237
; ‘normal’ talk directed at children
65
; operating principles
140
; parent-child conversation
135
; on Skinner
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2
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3

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6
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; switch setting
128
; transformational grammar
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2
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; universals
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129

Christopher (savant)
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chunks
24
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cicada
24

5

Claire (child)
181

Clark, E.V.
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Clark, H.H.
239

Clark, V.P.
240

click experiments
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clicks (of dolphins)
26

Clifton, C.
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cognitive development
130

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238

9
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243
;
see also
intelligence

cognitive linguistics
xix
,
239

cognitive revolution
241

Cohen, A.
222

cohort model
187

8

communication, difficulty of defining
19

20

competence: communicative xix; vs. performance
155
,
160

complex constructions
68
,
131

2

comprehension of language
xvii
,
185

211
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236
,
238
; by apes
37

8
; brain areas responsible for
50
,
52
; by children
74
,
76
,
117
; difficulties with
204

10
; further reading
244
; identification of words
187

90
; informed guesses
193

8
; left-to-right model
202

4
; relationship to production
185

6
; strategies
193

202
,
203

4
,
211
,
244
; versatile verbs
190

2

compression of information
207
,
209

conceptual agrammatism
219

conditioning
vii

viii
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3

conjoining
153

connectionism
52

3
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188
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238
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243
,
245

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