Semantics in Acquisition

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Geenhoven, Veerle van (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Comparative linguistics.; Psycholinguistics.; Semantics.; Comparative Linguistics.

This book is unique in that it relates two linguistic subfields: Semantics and Language Acquisition. The volume contains a collection of writings that focuses on semantic phenomena and their interpretation in the analysis of the language of a learner. The variety of phenomena that are addressed is s...

Table of Contents:

• The development of the syntax-semantics interface
• ‘Mismatches’ of Form and Interpretation
• Watching Noun Phrases Emerge: Seeking Compositionality
• Cross-Linguistic Acquisition of Complement Tense
• Acquiring Universal Quantification
• Everybody Knows
• The Effect of Context on Children'S Interpretations of Universally Quantified Sentences
• Structure and Meaning in the Acquisition of Scope
• Time in the language of a learner
• Time for Children: An Integrated Stage Model of Aspect and Tense
• State Change and Temporal Reference in Inuktitut Child Language
• Temporal Adverbials and Early Tense and Aspect Markers in the Acquisition of Dutch
• Finiteness and its development
• On Finiteness
• Functions of Finiteness in Child Language
• Focus particles in child language
• Additive Particles and Scope Marking in Child German
• (Un)Stressed ook in Child Dutch.