The Acquisition of Verbs and their Grammar: [electronic resource] : The Effect of Particular Languages /
Gagarina, Natalia.editor.
Gülzow, Insa.editor.
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, Russian and French. Findings are interpreted with a focus on cross-linguistic similarities and differences, without subscribing to either a UG-based or usage-based approach. Currently debated topics, such as the role of frequency, as well as traditional ones such as bootstrapping are integrated into the presentation of language-specific, learner-specific and more general properties of the acquisition process. The papers are united by their focus on discovering what determines rule-governed behavior in language learners who are coming to terms with the grammar of verbs.
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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.
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, Russian and French. Findings are interpreted with a focus on cross-linguistic similarities and differences, without subscribing to either a UG-based or usage-based approach. Currently debated topics, such as the role of frequency, as well as traditional ones such as bootstrapping are integrated into the presentation of language-specific, learner-specific and more general properties of the acquisition process. The papers are united by their focus on discovering what determines rule-governed behavior in language learners who are coming to terms with the grammar of verbs.
Applied linguistics.
Psycholinguistics.
Grammar.
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Applied Linguistics.
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Grammar.
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