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Title The acquisition of verbs and their grammar : the effect of particular languages / edited by Natalia Gagarina and Insa Gülzow
Published Dordrecht, the Netherlands : Springer, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 347 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in theoretical psycholinguistics ; v. 33
Studies in theoretical psycholinguistics ; v. 33.
Contents Language-specific impact on the acquisition of Hebrew -- Acquisition of verb argument structure from a developmental perspective: Evidence from Child Hebrew -- Subject use and the acquisition of verbal agreement in Hebrew -- Language-specific variation in the development of predication and verb semantics -- Strategies in the L1-acquisition of predication: The copula construction in German and Croatian -- Why not all verbs are learned equally: The Intransitive Verb Bias in Japanese -- Stages in the development of verb grammar and the role of semantic bootstrapping -- Dynamic event words, motion events and the transition to verb meanings -- The early stages of verb acquisition in German, Spanish and English -- Finiteness in children and adults learning Dutch -- Language-specific variation and the role of frequency -- The acquisition of voice morphology in Jakarta Indonesian -- Analytical and synthetic verb constructions in Russian and English child language -- Language-specific and learner-specific peculiarities in the development of verbs and their grammar -- The acquisition of verbal inflection in Estonian: Two Case Studies -- Grammatical role of French first verbs -- Speaker and hearer reference in Russian speaking children
Summary Investigates the linguistic development of children with regard to their knowledge of the verb and its grammar. This book features a selection of papers that gives empirical evidence from a variety of languages including Hebrew, German, Croatian, Japanese, English, Spanish, Dutch, Indonesian, Estonian, Russian, and French
Analysis Acquisition of verbs
psychologie
psychology
talen
languages
taal
language
taalwetenschappen
linguistics
grammatica
grammar
Languages (General)
Talen (algemeen)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
In Springer e-books
Subject Language acquisition.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb.
Language Development
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- Psycholinguistics.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb.
Language acquisition.
Sciences sociales.
Sciences humaines.
Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb
Language acquisition
Form Electronic book
Author Gagarina, Natalia
Gülzow, Insa, 1967-
ISBN 9781402043352
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