Studies on Language Acquisition [Sola]

A case study of German child language

By: Angelika Wittek

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Hardcover | 26 June 2002

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Causative change-of-state verbs like 'to open', 'to fill', and 'to wake' are central to both recent theories of grammatical development and theories of lexical structure. This book focuses on how German-speaking children learn the meaning of change-of-state verbs. It offers a thorough characterization of the acquisition of German, embedded in a crosslinguistic perspective. The author provides a comprehensive review of the acquisition literature on that topic and introduces a new account as to how the meaning of these verbs can be learned. The empirical backbone of the investigation are a set of carefully designed experimental studies.

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Introduction	p. 1
What does it take to learn the meaning of a verb?	p. 1
Why learning the meaning of verbs is difficult	p. 1
Why learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs should be easy, but it isn't - previewing the paradox	p. 5
Goals and organization of this book	p. 8
A paradox: Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs should be easy, but it isn't	p. 15
Children are sensitive to state changes from early on	p. 15
The learning problem: Children neglect the endstate in interpreting change-of-state verbs	p. 20
Evidence for children's neglect of the endstate	p. 20
Why would children neglect the endstate?	p. 23
How to test the scope of the neglect of endstate: The Transparent Endstate Hypothesis	p. 33
Conclusion	p. 37
Is the learning problem due to mapping problems? Testing the Transparent Endstate Hypothesis	p. 39
How causal state changes are lexicalized in German	p. 39
Experiment 1: Transparent endstates (Type: wachmachen 'awake-make')	p. 45
Method	p. 45
Experimental predictions	p. 51
Results	p. 52
A tree-based modeling analysis of the data	p. 54
Discussion	p. 57
Experiment 2: Transparent endstates (Type: wachklingeln 'awake-ring')	p. 61
Method	p. 62
Experimental predictions	p. 63
Results	p. 64
Discussion	p. 66
Experiment 3: Transparent endstates made salient (Type: wachmachen 'awake-make')	p. 68
Method	p. 68
Experimental predictions	p. 70
Results	p. 71
A tree-based modeling analysis of the data	p. 73
Discussion	p. 75
General Discussion	p. 78
Conclusion	p. 82
A subtle learning problem: The Weak Endstate	p. 83
The resolution of the paradox?	p. 83
Characterizing children's interpretation of change-of-state verbs: the Weak Endstate	p. 83
"Weak" endstates in the adult language	p. 89
Change-of-state verbs in a broader crosslinguistic perspective	p. 97
The learning problem is more subtle than we thought	p. 102
How does the child correct inappropriate Weak Endstate interpretations?	p. 106
The Syntactic Bootstrapping Hypothesis	p. 107
A related proposal: Morphological Bootstrapping	p. 114
The Semantic Structure Hypothesis Testing Hypothesis	p. 116
Conclusion	p. 118
Modifiers as cues to verb meaning	p. 121
How could the learner use modifiers as cues to verb meaning?	p. 121
What do modifiers do?	p. 121
The Adverbial Modification Cue Hypothesis	p. 123
A candidate solution to the Weak Endstate problem: wieder 'again'	p. 124
The properties of again	p. 124
Restitutive again as an Adverbial Modification Cue	p. 130
Do children have knowledge of restitutive wieder 'again', and do caretakers use it in their speech?	p. 132
Evidence from previous studies	p. 132
A Childes search	p. 134
Children's and adults' use of restitutive wieder 'again' with change-of-state verbs: An exploratory study	p. 138
Method	p. 138
Predictions	p. 143
Results	p. 143
Discussion	p. 144
Conclusion	p. 145
Testing the Adverbial Modification Cue Hypothesis	p. 147
Developing an experimental design to test wieder 'again' as an Adverbial Modification Cue	p. 147
Experiment 4: Testing wieder 'again' as a cue that a verb entails an endstate	p. 149
Method	p. 149
Experimental prediction	p. 156
Results	p. 157
Discussion	p. 160
Experiment 5 (control experiment)	p. 162
Method	p. 163
Experimental prediction	p. 163
Results	p. 164
Discussion	p. 166
General Discussion: A broader perspective on the Adverbial Modification Cue Hypothesis	p. 168
Conclusion	p. 172
Summary: The status of the endstate in children's semantic representations of change-of-state verbs	p. 175
Appendices	p. 191
Notes	p. 199
References	p. 209
Subject index	p. 227
Author index	p. 231
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