TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gagarina,Natalia
AU  - Gulzow,Insa
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - The Acquisition of Verbs and their Grammar: The Effect of Particular Languages
T2  - Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
SN  - 9781402043352
U1  - 401.9 23
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer Netherlands
KW  - LINGUISTICS
KW  - GRAMMAR, COMPARATIVE AND GENERAL
KW  - PSYCHOLINGUISTICS
KW  - GRAMMAR
KW  - THEORETICAL LANGUAGES
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4335-2
ER  -