The Acquisition of Verbs and their Grammar: The Effect of Particular Languages

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Gagarina, Natalia (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Gulzow, Insa (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Σειρά: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics ; 33
• Θέματα: Linguistics.; Applied linguistics.; Grammar.; Psycholinguistics.; Applied Linguistics.; Theoretical Linguistics.

 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, English, Spanish, Dutch, Indonesian, Estonian, Russian and French. Findings are interpreted with a focus on cross-linguistic similarities and differences, without subscribing to either a UG-based or usage-based approach. Currently debated topics, such as the role of frequency, as well as traditional ones such as bootstrapping are integrated into the presentation of language-specific, learner-specific and more general properties of the acquisition process. The papers are united by their focus on discovering what determines rule-governed behavior in language learners who are coming to terms with the grammar of verbs. 

 Language-specific impact on the acquisition of Hebrew -- Acquisition of verb argument structure from a developmental perspective: Evidence from Child Hebrew -- Subject use and the acquisition of verbal agreement in Hebrew -- Language-specific variation in the development of predication and verb semantics -- Strategies in the L1-acquisition of predication: The copula construction in German and Croatian -- Why not all verbs are learned equally: The Intransitive Verb Bias in Japanese -- Stages in the development of verb grammar and the role of semantic bootstrapping -- Dynamic event words, motion events and the transition to verb meanings -- The early stages of verb acquisition in German, Spanish and English -- Finiteness in children and adults learning Dutch -- Language-specific variation and the role of frequency -- The acquisition of voice morphology in Jakarta Indonesian -- Analytical and synthetic verb constructions in Russian and English child language -- Language-specific and learner-specific peculiarities in the development of verbs and their grammar -- The acquisition of verbal inflection in Estonian: Two Case Studies -- Grammatical role of French first verbs -- Speaker and hearer reference in Russian speaking children.