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

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Beyond Names for Things

Young Children's Acquisition of Verbs

By: Michael Tomasello (Editor), William E. Merriman (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 January 1995 | Edition Number 1

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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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Introduction: Verbs Are Words Too	p. 15
References	p. 16
Acknowledgment	p. 16
Early Words For Action	p. 19
Conceptual Development and the Child's Early Words for Events, Objects, and Persons	p. 21
Acknowledgment	p. 56
References	p. 56
Names, Relational Words, and Cognitive Development in English and Korean Speakers: Nouns Are Not Always Learned Before Verbs	p. 63
Acknowedgements	p. 78
References	p. 78
Differences in the Acquisition of Early Verbs: Evidence from Diary Data from Sisters	p. 81
References	p. 109
Acknowledgments	p. 109
Basic Principles Of Verb Learning	p. 113
Pragmatic Contexts for Early Verb Learning	p. 115
Children's Disposition to Map New Words onto New Referents	p. 147
References	p. 181
Lexical Principles Can Be Extended to the Acquisition of Verbs	p. 185
Acknowledgments	p. 217
References	p. 217
The Dual Category Problem the Acquisition of Action Words	p. 223
Processes Involved in the Initial Mapping of Verb Meanings	p. 251
References	p. 270
The Role Of Argument Structure	p. 275
Verbs of a Feather Flock Together: Semantic Information in the Structure of Maternal Speech	p. 277
References	p. 295
Syntactic Bootstrapping from Start to Finish with Special Reference to Down Syndrome	p. 299
Acknowledgments	p. 326
Acknowledgments	p. 327
Missing Arguments and the Acquisition of Predicate Meanings	p. 331
References	p. 351
Acknowledgments	p. 351
Verb Argument Structure and the Problem of Avoiding an Overgeneral Grammar	p. 353
Hedgehogs, Foxes, and the Acquisition of Verb Meaning	p. 377
Acknowledgments	p. 402
Author Index	p. 405
Subject Index	p. 413
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