The Acquisition of Verbs and their Grammar: The Effect of Particular Languages
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, Eng
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STUDIES IN THEORETICAL PSYCHOLINGUISTICS VOLUME 33
Managing Editors Lyn Frazier, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Thomas Roeper, Dept. of Linguistics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Kenneth Wexler, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. Editorial Board Robert Berwick, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT, Cambridge, Mass. Matthew Crocker, Saarland University, Germany Janet Dean Fodor, City University of New York, New York Angela Friederici, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Germany Merrill Garrett, University of Arizona, Tucson Lila Gleitman, School of Education, University of Pennsylvania Chris Kennedy, Northwestern University, Illinois Manfred Krifka, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany Howard Lasnik, University of Maryland, Maryland Yukio Otsu, Keio University, Tokyo Andrew Radford, University of Essex, U.K.
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THE ACQUISITION OF VERBS AND THEIR GRAMMAR: THE EFFECT OF PARTICULAR LANGUAGES Edited by
NATALIA GAGARINA Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany
and
INSA GÜLZOW Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, Germany
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction NATALIA GAGARINA AND INSA GÜLZOW
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Part 1: Language-specific impact on the acquisition of Hebrew SIGAL UZIEL-KARL Acquisition of verb argument structure from a developmental perspective: Evidence from Child Hebrew
15
SHARON ARMON-LOTEM Subject use and the acquisition of verbal agreement in Hebrew
45
Part 2: Language-specific variation in the development of predication and verb semantics CHRISTINE CZINGLAR, ANTIGONE KATIČIĆ, KATHARINA KÖHLER AND CHRIS SCHANER-WOLLES Strategies in the L1-acquisition of predication: The copula construction in German and Croatian NATSUKO TSUJIMURA Why not all verbs are learned equally: The Intransitive Verb Bias in Japanese
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Part 3: Stages in the development of verb grammar and the role of semantic bootstrapping ELLEN HERR-ISRAEL AND LORRAINE MCCUNE 125 Dynamic event words, motion events and the transition to verb meanings DAVID INGRAM, ANNE WELTI AND CHRISTINE PRIEM The early stages of verb acquisition in English, Spanish and German
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PETER JORDENS AND CHRISTINE DIMROTH Finiteness in children and adults l
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