Bittner / Ruhlig Lexical Bootstrapping

The Role of Lexis and Semantics in Child Language Development
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-030869-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 50, 276 Seiten

Reihe: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]ISSN

The internal bootstrapps for establishing the grammatical system of a human language build an essential topic in language acquisition research. The discussion of the last 20 years came up with the Lexical Bootstrapping Hypothesis which assigns lexical development the role of the central bootstrapping process. The volume presents work from different theoretical perspectives evaluating the strength and weaknesses of this hypothesis.

Zielgruppe

Linguists, Developmental Psychologists, Speech Pathologists, Speech Therapists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bittner, Dagmar

Ruhlig, Nadja

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Spracherwerb, Sprachentwicklung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Introduction: Emergence and applications of the Lexical Bootstrapping Hypothesis;7
2;Pre-language cognition, motion event semantics, and the transition from single words to first sentences;17
3;Bootstrapping and the acquisition of MandarinChinese: A natural semantic metalanguage Perspective;45
4;Lexical Bootstrapping Hypothesis and conventionality: a crosslinguistic study on verb acquisition by Chinese Mandarin- and Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children;79
5;Lexical acquisition through acquisition order;105
6;Lexicon-grammar continuity in Turkish children’s language growth;129
7;The interrelation between lexical and grammatical abilities in early language acquisition;149
8;Continuity of lexical, grammatical, phonetic and phonological development in German late talkers – A longitudinal study;171
9;Function words and the bootstrapping of grammar in normally developing and impaired L1 -acquisition of German;193
10;The role of the lexicon in the development of the language processor;223
11;Grammar from the lexicon: Evidence from neural network simulations of language acquisition;251
12;List of contributors;271
13;Index;274

Über Autor(innen)

Dagmar Bittner and Nadja Ruhlig, Centre for General Linguistics, Berlin, Germany.