Buch, Englisch, 383 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 725 g
A Case Study of Early Grammatical Development
Buch, Englisch, 383 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 725 g
ISBN: 978-0-521-37496-5
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
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.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Sprachphilosophie
- Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Pädagogik Pädagogische Psychologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
- Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Entwicklungspsychologie Kinder- und Jugendpsychologie
Weitere Infos & Material
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.
