Verb Concepts in Child Language
Author : Richard Weist
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Children
ISBN :
Author : Richard Weist
Publisher :
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Children
ISBN :
Author : Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 11,16 MB
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199753717
Although there has been a surge in our understanding of children's vocabulary growth, theories of word learning lack a primary focus on verbs and adjectives. Researchers throughout the world recognize how our understanding of language acquisition can be at best partial if we cannot comprehend how verbs are learned. This volume represents a proliferation of research on the frontier of early verb learning, enhancing our understanding of the building blocks of language and considering new ways to assess key aspects of language growth.
Author : Melissa Bowerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,65 MB
Release : 2001-01-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780521593588
Leading scholars examine the relationship between child language acquisition and cognitive development.
Author : Melissa Bowerman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 39,47 MB
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9004362827
In her Beijing lectures, Melissa Bowerman presents a lucid introduction and account of her research on a range of topics: how children acquire the semantics of spatial terms, how they construct categories and acquire the semantics of nouns, and how they master the semantics of verbs in early language acquisition. Bowerman also covers the learning of argument structure and expressions of end-state, with special attention to the adult speech that guides children, and hence also the role of typology in acquisition; how cross-linguistic variation affects, for example, how speakers represent ‘cutting’ and ‘breaking’ in different languages, and the relation of the Whorfian Hypothesis to cross-linguistic variations in the semantics of languages. Bowerman’s over-riding concern throughout is with how children come to master the first language being spoken to them by their parents and caregivers.
Author : Paul Bloom
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 37,66 MB
Release : 2002-01-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780262523295
How do children learn that the word "dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, and not just to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they learn the meanings of verbs like "think," adjectives like "good," and words for abstract entities such as "mortgage" and "story"? The acquisition of word meaning is one of the fundamental issues in the study of mind. According to Paul Bloom, children learn words through sophisticated cognitive abilities that exist for other purposes. These include the ability to infer others' intentions, the ability to acquire concepts, an appreciation of syntactic structure, and certain general learning and memory abilities. Although other researchers have associated word learning with some of these capacities, Bloom is the first to show how a complete explanation requires all of them. The acquisition of even simple nouns requires rich conceptual, social, and linguistic capacities interacting in complex ways. This book requires no background in psychology or linguistics and is written in a clear, engaging style. Topics include the effects of language on spatial reasoning, the origin of essentialist beliefs, and the young child's understanding of representational art. The book should appeal to general readers interested in language and cognition as well as to researchers in the field.
Author : Michael Tomasello
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317781813
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.
Author : Laurence B. Leonard
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 31,83 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Children
ISBN : 9780262621366
Children with Specific Language Impairment covers all aspects of SLI, including its history, possible genetic and neurobiological origins, and clinical and educational practice.
Author : Dagmar Bittner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 34,75 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783110178234
Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts.
Author : George Hollich
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 19,28 MB
Release : 2000-10-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780631221548
How do children learn their first words? The field of language development has been polarized by responses to this question. Explanations range from accounts that emphasize the importance of cognitive heuristics in language acquisition, to those that highlight the role of "dumb attentional mechanisms" in word learning. This monograph offers an alternative to these accounts. A hybrid view of word-learning, called the emergentist coalition theory, combines cognitive constraints, social-pragmatic factors, and global attentional mechanisms to arrive at a balanced account of how children construct principles of word learning. In twelve experiments, with children ranging from 12 to 25 months of age, data are described that support the emergentist coalition theory.
Author : Michael Tomasello
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 17,90 MB
Release : 1992-03-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521374960
During the second year of his daughter's life, Michael Tomasello kept a detailed diary of her language, creating a rich database. He made a careful study of how she acquired her first verbs and analysed the role that verbs played in her early grammatical development.