Beyond Names for Things (eBook, PDF)

Young Children's Acquisition of Verbs
Redaktion: Tomasello, Michael; Merriman, William E.

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Produktbeschreibung

Most research on children's lexical development has focused on their acquisition of names for concrete objects. This is the first edited volume to focus specifically on how children acquire their early verbs. Verbs are an especially important part of the early lexicon because of the role they play in children's emerging grammatical competence. The contributors to this book investigate:
* children's earliest words for actions and events and the cognitive structures that might underlie them,
* the possibility that the basic principles of word learning which apply in the case of nouns might also apply in the case of verbs, and
the role of linguistic context, especially argument structure, in the acquisition of verbs.

A central theme in many of the chapters is the comparison of the processes of noun and verb learning. Several contributors make provocative suggestions for constructing theories of lexical development that encompass the full range of lexical items that children learn and use.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317781820
• Artikelnr.: 40528801

Autorenporträt

Michael Tomasello, William E. Merriman

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: W.E. Merriman
M. Tomasello
Introduction: Verbs Are Words Too. Part I:Early Words for Action.P. Smiley
J. Huttenlocher
Conceptual Development and the Child's Early Words for Events
Objects
and Persons. A. Gopnik
S. Choi
Names
Relational Words
and Cognitive Development in English and Korean Speakers: Nouns Are Not Always Learned Before Verbs. S.R. Braunwald
Differences in the Acquisition of Early Verbs: Evidence From Diary Data from Sisters. Part II:Basic Principles of Verb Learning.M. Tomasello
Pragmatic Contexts for Early Verb Learning. W.E. Merriman
J. Marazita
L. Jarvis
Children's Disposition to Map New Words Onto New Referents. R.M. Golinkoff
K. Hirsh-Pasek
C.B. Mervis
W.B. Frawley
M. Parillo
Lexical Priciples Can Be Extended to the Acquisition of Verbs. K. Nelson
The Dual Category Problem in the Acquisition of Action Words. D.A. Behrend
Processes Involved in the Initial Mapping of Verb Meanings. Part III:The Role of Argument Structure.A. Lederer
H. Gleitman
L. Gleitman
Verbs of a Feather Flock Together: Semantic Information in the Structure of Maternal Speech. L.G. Naigles
A. Fowler
A. Helm
Syntactic Bootstrapping From Start to Finish With Special Reference to Down Syndrome. M. Rispoli
Missing Arguments and the Acquisition of Predicate Meanings. M.D.S. Braine
P.J. Brooks
Verb Argument Structure and the Problem of Avoiding an Overgeneral Grammar. M. Maratsos
G. Deák
Hedgehogs
Foxes
and the Acquisition of Verb Meaning.