| Description |
xvi, 588 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Contents |
Finding the verbs : distributional cues to categories available to young learners / Toben H. Mintz -- Finding verb forms within the continuous speech stream / Thierry Nazzi and Derek Houston -- Discovering verbs through multiple-cue integration / Morten H. Christiansen and Padraic Monaghan -- Actions organize the infant's world / Jean M. Mandler -- Conceptual foundations for verb learning : celebrating the event / Rachel Pulverman ... [et al.] -- Precursors to verb learning : infants' understanding of motion events / Marianella Casasola, Jui Bhagwat, and Kim T. Ferguson -- Preverbal spatial cognition and language-specific input : categories of containment and support / Soonja Choi -- The roots of verbs in prelinguistic action knowledge / Jennifer Sootsman Buresh, Amanda Woodward, and Camille W. Brune -- When is a grasp a grasp? : characterizing some basic components of human action processing / Jeffrey T. Loucks and Dare Baldwin -- Work, intention, and action : a two-tiered model of action word learning / Diane Poulin-Dubois and James N. Forbes -- Verbs, actions, and intentions / Douglas A. Behrend and Jason Scofield -- Are nouns easier to learn than verbs? : three experimental studies / Jane B. Childers and Michael Tomasello -- Verbs at the very beginning : parallels between comprehension and input / Letitia R Naigles and Erika Hoff -- A unified theory of word learning : putting verb acquisition in context / Mandy J. Maguire, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff -- Who's the subject? : sentence structure and verb meaning / Cynthia Fisher and Hyun-joo Song -- Verb learning as a probe into children's grammars / Jeffrey Lidz -- Revisiting the noun-verb debate : a cross linguistic comparison of novel noun and verb learning in English-, Japanese-, and Chinese-speaking children / Mutsumi Imai ... [et al.] -- But are they really verbs? : Chinese words for action / Twila Tardif -- Influences of object knowledge on the acquisition of verbs in English and Japanese / Alan W. Kersten, Linda B. Smith, and Hanako Yoshida -- East and West : a role for culture in the acquitision of nouns and verbs / Tracy A. Lavin, D. Geoffrey Hall, and Sandra R. Waxman -- Why verbs are hard to learn / Dedre Gentner. |
| Subject |
Language acquisition.
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Grammar, Comparative and general -- Verb.
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| Added Author |
Hirsh-Pasek, Kathy.
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Golinkoff, Roberta M.
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| ISBN |
0195170008 |
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9780195170009 |
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