Overview
- Offers empirical evidence from a large variety of languages
- The empirical evidence is discussed without subscribing to one of the two main theoretical perspectives
- Topics discussed include: the language effect, the impact of frequency on the acquisition of verbs
Part of the book series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics (SITP, volume 33)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Language-specific impact on the acquisition of Hebrew
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Language-specific variation in the development of predication and verb semantics
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Stages in the development of verb grammar and the role of semantic bootstrapping
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Language-specific variation and the role of frequency
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Language-specific and learner-specific peculiarities in the development of verbs and their grammar
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Acquisition of Verbs and their Grammar:
Book Subtitle: The Effect of Particular Languages
Editors: Natalia Gagarina, Insa Gulzow
Series Title: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4335-2
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4334-5Published: 29 March 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-4336-9Published: 26 November 2007
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-4335-2Published: 15 July 2006
Series ISSN: 1873-0043
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1788
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 351
Topics: Applied Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Grammar, Theoretical Linguistics