Flexibility in early verb use
Subtitle: evidence from a multiple-N diary study
By: Letitia R. Naigles, Erika Hoff, and Donna Vear ; with commentary by Michael Tomasello ... [et al.].
Series: Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development -- serial no. 293, vol. 74, no. 2, 2009; Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development -- v. 74, no. 2.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
Subjects: Language acquisition; Comparative and general Grammar; Verb; Child development; Cognitive grammar
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Presenting the diary method; title: A general description of early verb growth and use; title: Pragmatic and semantic flexibility in early verb use; title: Productivity and grammatical flexibility in early verb use; title: Differences in early verb growth and use as a function of developmental period, child, and verb; title: General discussion; title: Commentary: Flexibility in the semantics and syntax of children's early verb use / Michael Tomasello and Silke Brandt; title: Learning from infants' first verbs / Sandra R. Waxman; title: Early verb learners: creative or not? / Jane B. Childers.