First verbs : a case study of early grammatical development
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First verbs : a case study of early grammatical development
Cambridge University Press, 1992
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-284) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
During the second year of his daughter's life, Michael Tomasello kept a detailed diary of her language, creating a rich database. He made a careful study of how she acquired her first verbs and analysed the role that verbs played in her early grammatical development. Using a Cognitive Linguistics framework, the author argues persuasively that the child's earliest grammatical organization is verb-specific (the Verb Island hypothesis). He argues further that early language is acquired by means of very general cognitive and social-cognitive processes, especially event structures and cultural learning. The richness of the database and the analytical tools used make First Verbs a particularly useful and important book for developmental psychologists, linguists, language development researchers and speech pathologists.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- 2. In the beginning was the verb
- 3. Methods and an introduction to T's language
- 4. Change of state verbs and sentences
- 5. Activity verbs and sentences
- 6. Other grammatical structures
- 7. The development of T's verb lexicon
- 8. The development of T's grammar
- 9. Language acquisition as cultural learning
- References
- Appendix
- Index.
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