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Ten lectures on language, cognition, and language acquisition /

"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 l...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bowerman, Melissa (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Colección:Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Spatial semantics in languages and language learners
  • Mechanisms of semantic category construction in first language acquisition
  • The crosslinguistic categorization of everyday events: The case of "cutting and breaking"
  • Special meanings for grammatical morphemes?
  • Noun semantics and "natural ontology" in language acquisition
  • Verb learning and argument structure
  • Language typology and "thinking for speaking"
  • Learning about end-state entailment in German versus Mandarin Chinese
  • Crosslinguistic semantic variation and Whorfian hypothesis.