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Action Meets Word : How Children Learn Verbs.
Words are the building blocks of language. An understanding of how words are learned is thus central to any theory of language acquisition. Although there has been a surge in our understanding of children's vocabulary growth, theories of word learning focus primarily on object nouns. Word learn...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford University Press, USA,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Words are the building blocks of language. An understanding of how words are learned is thus central to any theory of language acquisition. Although there has been a surge in our understanding of children's vocabulary growth, theories of word learning focus primarily on object nouns. Word learning theories must explain not only the learning of object nouns, but also the learning of other, major classes of words - verbs and adjectives. Verbs form the hub of the sentence because they determine the sentence's argument structure. Researchers throughout the world recognize how our understanding of. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (605 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780195346947 0195346947 9780199753710 0199753717 9780190290955 0190290951 |