Routes to language
Subtitle: studies in honor of Melissa Bowerman
By: edited by Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole.
Contributors: Bowerman, Melissa.; Mueller-Gathercole, Virginia C.
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 457
ISBN-13: 9781841697161
Subjects: Language acquisition
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Learning words; title: Personal tribute / Dedre Gentner; title: Early acquisition of nouns and verbs : evidence from Navajo / Dedre Gentner and Lera Boroditsky; title: Personal tribute / Esther Dromi; title: Old data, new eyes : theories on word meaning acquisition / Esther Dromi; title: Crosslinguistic patterning and acquisition of lexical semantics; title: Personal tribute / Ruth A. Berman; title: Personal tribute / Angelika Wittek; title: Personal tribute / Lourdes de León; title: Mayan semantics in early lexical development : the case of the Tzotzil verbs for 'eating' and 'falling down' / Lourdes de León; title: Personal tribute / Penelope Brown and Bhuvana Narasimhan; title: Getting the INSIDE story : learning to express containment in Tzeltal and Hindi / Bhuvana Narasimhan and Penelope Brown; title: Crosslinguistic patterning and events, paths, and causes; title: Personal tribute / Leonard Talmy; title: Personal tribute / Jidong Chen; title: Personal tribute / William Croft; title: Aspectual and causal structure in event representations / William Croft; title: Personal tribute / Soonja Choi; title: Typological differences in syntactic expressions of path and causation / Soonja Choi; title: Personal tribute / Dan I. Slobin; title: Relation between paths of motion and paths of vision : a crosslinguistic and developmental exploration / Dan I. Slobin; title: Influences on development; title: Personal tribute / Ronald P. Schaefer; title: Personal tribute / Martha Crago; title: Personal tribute / Eve V. Clark; title: What shapes children's language? Child-directed speech, conventionality, and the process of acquisition / Eve V. Clark; title: Personal tribute / Ping Li; title: Meaning in acquisition : semantic structure, lexical organization, and crosslinguistic variation / Ping Li; title: Personal tribute / Mabel Rice; title: Language acquisition lessons from children with specific language impairment : revisiting the discovery of latent structures / Mabel L. Rice; title: Personal tribute / Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole; title: "It was so much fun. It was 20 fun!" : cognitive and linguistic invitations to the development of scalar predicates / Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole.