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1 online resource (428 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; 1 Introduction: Verbs are Words Too; Part I Early Words for Action; 2 Conceptual Development and the Child's Early Words for Events, Objects, and Persons; 3 Names, Relational Words, and Cognitive Development in English and Korean Speakers: Nouns Are Not Always Learned Before Verbs; 4 Differences in the Acquisition of Early Verbs: Evidence from Diary Data from Sisters; Part II Basic Principles of Verb Learning; 5 Pragmatic Contexts for Early Verb Learning; 6 Children's Disposition to Map New Words Onto New Referents |
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7 Lexical Principles Can Be Extended to the Acquisition of Verbs8 The Dual Category Problem in the Acquisition of Action Words; 9 Processes Involved in the Initial Mapping of Verb Meanings; Part III The Role of Argument Structure; 10 Verbs of a Feather Flock Together: Semantic Information in the Structure of Maternal Speech; 11 Syntactic Bootstrapping from Start to Finish with Special Reference to Down Syndrome; 12 Missing Arguments and the Acquisition of Predicate Meanings; 13 Verb Argument Structure and the Problem of Avoiding an Overgeneral Grammar |
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14 Hedgehogs, Foxes, and the Acquisition of Verb MeaningAuthor Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
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 m |
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Print version record |
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Language acquisition.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax.
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Language Development
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Syntax
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb
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Language acquisition
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Merriman, William E
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| ISBN |
9781317781820 |
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1317781821 |
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