Part 1.Levels of acquisition

Learning how to communicate in infancy11

Danielle Matthews

Heads, shoulders, knees and toes: What developmental robotics can tell us about language acquisition39

Katherine E. Twomey

Angelo Cangelosi

Insights from studying statistical learning65

Rebecca L. A. Frost

Padraic Monaghan

From grammatical categories to processes of categorization: The acquisition of morphosyntax from a usage-based perspective91

Heike Behrens

The retreat from transitive-causative overgeneralization errors: A review and diary study113

Ben Ambridge

Chloe Ambridge

Where form meets meaning in the acquisition of grammatical constructions131

Anna L. Theakston

Social cognitive and later language acquisition155

Silke Brandt

Part 2.Levels of variation

The emergence of gesture during prelinguistic interaction173

Thea Cameron-Faulkner

Individual differences in first language acquisition and their theoretical implications189

Evan Kidd

Amy Bidgood

Seamus Donnelly

Samantha Durrant

Michelle S Peter

Caroline F. Rowland

Understanding the cross-linguistic pattern of verb-marking error in typically developing children and children with developmental language disorder: Why the input matters221

Julian M. Pine

Daniel Freudenthal

Fernand Gobet

Sampling linguistic diversity to understand language development247

Sabine Stoll

Lessons from studying language development in bilingual children263

Ludovica Serratrice

Language disorders and autism: Implications for usage-based theories of language development287

Kirsten Abbot-Smith

Index323

Table of contents

Part 1.Levels of acquisition

Part 2.Levels of variation