The Polysemy of 'with' in First Language Acquisition
David McKercher
Broschiertes Buch

The Polysemy of 'with' in First Language Acquisition

Psycholinguistic Studies of Children's Understanding and Use of a Multi-functional Preposition

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The English preposition ''with'' is polysemous in thatit has multiple distinct senses. It can be used tomark instruments (''He ate with a fork''),accompaniments (''He ate with a friend'', ''He ate pizzawith a salad''), manner (''He ate with enthusiasm'') andattributes (''He ate pizza with anchovies''). How dochildren learning English as their first languagedeal with the polysemy of ''with''? This book presentsevidence from a corpus study and threepsycholinguistic experiments that suggests thatchildren begin with a general meaning ofaccompaniment. This leads to over-generalization suchthat chil...