Beyond Names for Things: Young Children's Acquisition of Verbs

Beyond Names for Things: Young Children's Acquisition of Verbs
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Country
United States
Published
1 January 1995
Pages
428
ISBN
9780805812503

Beyond Names for Things: Young Children’s Acquisition of Verbs

This volume focuses 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; and 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 suggestions for constructing theories of lexical development that encompass the full range of lexical items that children learn and use.

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