Flexibility In Early Verb Use

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Flexibility In Early Verb Use

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Author : Letitia R. Naigles
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2009-09-01

Flexibility In Early Verb Use written by Letitia R. Naigles and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-01 with Family & Relationships categories.

Flexibility and productivity are hallmarks of human language use. Competent speakers have the capacity to use the words they know to serve a variety of communicative functions, to refer to new and varied exemplars of the categories to which words refer, and in new and varied combinations with other words. When and how children achieve this flexibility—and when they are truly productive language users—are central issues among accounts of language acquisition. The current study tests competing hypotheses of the achievement of flexibility and some kinds of productivity against data on children’s first uses of their first-acquired verbs. Eight mothers recorded their children's first 10 uses of 34 early-acquired verbs, if those verbs were produced within the window of the study. The children were between 16 and 20 months when the study began (depending on when the children started to produce verbs), were followed for between 3 and 12 months, and produced between 13 and 31 of the target verbs. These diary records provided the basis for a description of the pragmatic, semantic, and syntactic properties of early verb use. The data revealed that within this early, initial period of verb use, children use their verbs both to command and describe, they use their verbs in reference to a variety of appropriate actions enacted by a variety of actors and with a variety of affected objects, and they use their verbs in a variety of syntactic structures. All 8 children displayed semantic and grammatical flexibility before 24 months of age. These findings are more consistent with a model of the language learning child as an avid generalizer than as a conservative language user. Children’s early verb use suggests abilities and inclinations to abstract from experience that may indeed begin in infancy.

Flexibility In Early Verb Use

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Author : Letitia G Naigles
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009

Flexibility In Early Verb Use written by Letitia G Naigles and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Child development categories.

First Language Acquisition

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Author : Eve V. Clark
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-03-17

First Language Acquisition written by Eve V. Clark and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-17 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Fully updated throughout, this new edition provides a comprehensive exploration of how children acquire a first language effectively.

Cognitive Linguistics The Quantitative Turn

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Author : Laura A. Janda
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2013-07-31

Cognitive Linguistics The Quantitative Turn written by Laura A. Janda and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-31 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Designed to serve as a textbook for courses in statistical analysis in linguistics, this book orients the reader to various quantitative methods and explains their implications for the field. The methods include chi-square, Fisher test, binomial test, ANOVA, correlation, regression, and cluster analysis. The advantages and limitations of each method are detailed and each method is illustrated with exemplary articles presenting linguistic data.

Semantics In Language Acquisition

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Author : Kristen Syrett
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2018-08-02

Semantics In Language Acquisition written by Kristen Syrett and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-02 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This volume presents the state of the art of recent research on the acquisition of semantics. Covering topics ranging from infants' initial acquisition of word meaning to the more sophisticated mapping between structure and meaning in the syntax-semantics interface, and the relation between logical content and inferences on language meaning (semantics and pragmatics), the papers in this volume introduce the reader to the variety of ways in which children come to realize that semantic content is encoded in word meaning (for example, in the event semantics of the verbal domain or the scope of logical operators), and at the level of the sentence, which requires the composition of semantic meaning. The authors represent some of the most established and promising researchers in this domain, demonstrating collective expertise in a range of methodologies and topics relevant to the acquisition of semantics. This volume will serve as a valuable resource for students and faculty, and junior and seasoned researchers alike.

Handbook Of Psychology Developmental Psychology

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Author : Irving B. Weiner
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2012-10-06

Handbook Of Psychology Developmental Psychology written by Irving B. Weiner and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-06 with Psychology categories.

Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in learning more about why humans think and behave as they do. This award-winning twelve-volume reference covers every aspect of the ever-fascinating discipline of psychology and represents the most current knowledge in the field. This ten-year revision now covers discoveries based in neuroscience, clinical psychology's new interest in evidence-based practice and mindfulness, and new findings in social, developmental, and forensic psychology.

Corpora In Language Acquisition Research

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Author : Heike Behrens
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2008-04-09

Corpora In Language Acquisition Research written by Heike Behrens and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-09 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Corpus research forms the backbone of research on children's language development. Leading researchers in the field present a survey on the history of data collection, different types of data, and the treatment of methodological problems. Morphologically and syntactically parsed corpora allow for the concise explorations of formal phenomena, the quick retrieval of errors, and reliability checks. New probabilistic and connectionist computations investigate how children integrate the multiple sources of information available in the input, and new statistical methods compute rates of acquisition as well as error rates dependent on sample size. Sample analyses show how multi-modal corpora are used to investigate the interaction of discourse and linguistic structure, how cross-linguistic generalizations for acquisition can be formulated and tested, and how individual variation can be explored. Finally, ways in which corpus research interacts with computational linguistics and experimental research are presented.

Research Methods In Child Language

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Author : Erika Hoff
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2011-07-28

Research Methods In Child Language written by Erika Hoff and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-28 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This is a comprehensive and accessible guide to the methods researchers use to study child language, written by experienced scholars in the study of language development. Presents a comprehensive survey of laboratory and naturalistic techniques used in the study of different domains of language, age ranges, and populations, and explains the questions addressed by each technique Presents new research methods, such as the use of functional Near Infrared Spectroscopy (fNIRS) to study the activity of the brain Expands on more traditional research methods such as collection, transcription, and coding of speech samples that have been transformed by new hardware and software

Syntactic Development Its Input And Output

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Author : Anat Ninio
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2011-03-03

Syntactic Development Its Input And Output written by Anat Ninio and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-03 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

This text places the syntactic learning process under close scrutiny. Its focus is on the characteristics of linguistic input and the resultant output, which, it suggests, do not follow the orderly uniform processes assumed by some versions of formalistic linguistic theory.

Pragmatic Development In First Language Acquisition

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Author : Danielle Matthews
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Release Date : 2014-06-15

Pragmatic Development In First Language Acquisition written by Danielle Matthews and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-15 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Pragmatic development is increasingly seen as the foundation stone of language acquisition more generally. From very early on, children demonstrate a strong desire to understand and be understood that motivates the acquisition of lexicon and grammar and enables ever more effective communication. In the 35 years since the first edited volume on the topic, a flourishing literature has reported on the broad set of skills that can be called pragmatic. This volume aims to bring that literature together in a digestible format. It provides a series of succinct review chapters on 19 key topics ranging from preverbal skills right up to irony and argumentative discourse. Each chapter equips the reader with an overview of current theories, key empirical findings and questions for new research. This valuable resource will be of interest to scholars of psychology, linguistics, speech therapy, and cognitive science.