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The Acquisition of Verbs and their Grammar: The Effect of Particular Languages /

This volume investigates the linguistic development of children with regard to their knowledge of the verb and its grammar. The selection of papers gives empirical evidence from a wide variety of languages including Hebrew, German, Croatian, Japanese, English, Spanish, Dutch, Indonesian, Estonian, R...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Gagarina, Natalia (Editor ), Gülzow, Insa (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008.
Edición:1st ed. 2008.
Colección:Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics, 33
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Language-specific impact on the acquisition of Hebrew
  • Acquisition of verb argument structure from a developmental perspective: Evidence from Child Hebrew
  • Subject use and the acquisition of verbal agreement in Hebrew
  • Language-specific variation in the development of predication and verb semantics
  • Strategies in the L1-acquisition of predication: The copula construction in German and Croatian
  • Why not all verbs are learned equally: The Intransitive Verb Bias in Japanese
  • Stages in the development of verb grammar and the role of semantic bootstrapping
  • Dynamic event words, motion events and the transition to verb meanings
  • The early stages of verb acquisition in German, Spanish and English
  • Finiteness in children and adults learning Dutch
  • Language-specific variation and the role of frequency
  • The acquisition of voice morphology in Jakarta Indonesian
  • Analytical and synthetic verb constructions in Russian and English child language
  • Language-specific and learner-specific peculiarities in the development of verbs and their grammar
  • The acquisition of verbal inflection in Estonian: Two Case Studies
  • Grammatical role of French first verbs
  • Speaker and hearer reference in Russian speaking children.