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mental activity
as verbal process, 210
mental model, 202
mental representation
of language, 210
mentalese, 164
Meringoff, 235
metaphor and symbol, 200
Michaels, 249
Middle Ages
shift in education, 7
middle class
shrinking of, 34
Miller, Cowan, P., Cowan, C., & Hether-
ington, 203
mini-lessons, 79
minimalist program, 182
critique of, 191
misplaced modifiers, 80
Mississippi Delta, 227
mitochondrial DNA, 222
modals, 125
and tense, 126
modifiers, 77
modularity, 198
mood, 122
morality
innateness of, 202
Morgan, 22n
motivation
and dialect shift, 224
Müller and Basho, 192
Müller, Kleinhans, & Courchesne, 192
Murre, 280

N

NAEP scores
and ethnicity, 241
and writing, 24, 25, 35
National Assessment of Educational
Progress (NAEP), 45
National Center for Educational Statis-
tics, 12
negatives, 152

Nelson, 37

Nelson-Denny reading test, 234n

neural networks, 209

Newmeyer, 38n, 207

Newport, Gleitman, & Gleitman, 38,

194, 207

No Child Left Behind Act, 34n, 235

Noden, 29

nominals, 59

nominative absolute

definition of, 94

nominative case, 62

nonfinite verbs, 154

nonstandard English, 31

noun

definition of, 59

O

object raising, 168

objective case, 62

objects, 57

Odyssey, 2

Ojemann, 193

ordering convention, 169

Orr, 233

outcomes assessment, 19

P

Papiamento, 2369

Paradis, 192

parental input

and acquisition, 294

parental language

well formedness of, 194

particles, 92

passive

usage, 173

passive agent deletion, 170

passive transformation, 169

past tense

overgeneralization of, 208

pattern recognition

and language acquisition, 212

INDEX 271