472 INDEX
Moravcsik, Edith 162 n. 3
morphological blocking 50, 155, 162 n. 4
morphological structure 154, 161, 212, 253
morphophonological tier 8–9, 116–17, 122
morphosyntactic tier 52–3, 128–9, 158 n., 160, 195 n., 216,
259 – 60, 262
Morris, Charles 276
Motherese 82
Moveα48, 110
movement 48–9, 147, 168, 171, 178, 196–7; as metaphor 57;
see alsolong–distance dependencies
music 28, 61–2, 80, 93, 115, 117, 225, 276, 331, 355
Mylander, C. 99, 248
Nahuatl 263
Nam, Jee-Sun 258
nanocephalic dwarves (Seckel Syndrome) 95, 242
narrative 405, 412, 418– 21
Navajo 154
Neanderthals 232, 243– 4
necessary and sufficient conditions 288, 304–5, 350–6, 377
negation 401, 403
Neisser, Ulric 63, 205
network models of learning and processing 62–3, 65, 80, 102,
163 – 5, 188, 193, 219, 360, 382
neural activation 58, 61
neural correlates of consciousness 310– 11
neuralinstantiation:;ofconcepts 268, 344; ofimagery 312; of
language 57, 58–67, 90–3, 190, 200, 207, 211, 215 n., 227
n., 233, 259, 382, 422–4; of perception 307
neural organization 22–7, 34
Neville, Helen 227 n.
Newmeyer, Frederick 74, 94, 190, 234, 373
Newport, Elissa 82, 84, 96
Nicaraguan sign language 100– 1
Nikanne, Urpo 178, 365 n. 22, 368
Nordlinger, Rachel 261
Noun Incorporation 76
Nowak, Martin 81, 242
Nunberg, Geoffrey 171–2, 388
O'Neil, Wayne 97
obligation 323
Odden, David 117 n.
Oehrle, Richard 179
Oldfield,R. C. 211
one-trial learning 66
onomatopoeia 251
ontological category 316–18, 320–1, 361
opportunistic processing,Seeincremental processing
OptimalityTheory 44, 49, 50–1, 80, 102, 122, 190
Osgood, Charles 33
Otero, Carlos 130
overlearned abilities 28–9, 92–3, 219
Paivio, A. 347
Paradox of Language Acquisition 83– 90
parallel architecture 125–30, 198– 205
parsing 198, 201, 221, 222–3, 226 n.
Partee, Barbara 74, 296–7, 416
particles, English 31, 173–5, 187– 8
passive 47, 50, 133 n., 149 n., 178, 248, 262–3, 413
past tense, English 155, 158–61, 163–7, 183, 187, 212, 423
path 292, 318, 361– 2
Payne, Katharine 39, 245
percept 307– 14
Perdue, Clive 96, 247, 250– 1
perfective 363
Perlmutter, David 149
Perner,J. 323 n.
Perry, Theresa 4
Pesetsky, David 182 n.
Petitto, Laura 95, 246
Phonetic For m(PF) 110, 277