18.1336, Books: Language Acquisition/Psycholinguistics: Hirsch-Pasek, Golinkoff

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From: Elyse Turr < elyse.turr at oup.com >
Subject: Action Meets Word: Hirsch-Pasek, Golinkoff

 

	
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Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 10:48:27
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Subject: Action Meets Word: Hirsch-Pasek, Golinkoff 
 



Title: Action Meets Word 
Subtitle: How Children Learn Verbs 
Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author: Kathy Hirsch-Pasek
Author: Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

Hardback: ISBN: 9780195170009 Pages: 608 Price: U.S. $ 75.00


Abstract:

Words are the building blocks of language.  An understanding of how words
are learned is thus central to any theory of language acquisition. 
Although there has been a surge in our understanding of children's
vocabulary growth, theories of word learning focus primarily on object
nouns.  Word learning theories must explain not only the learning of
object nouns, but also the learning of other, major classes of words -
verbs and adjectives.  Verbs form the hub of the sentence because they
determine the sentence's argument structure.  Researchers throughout the
world recognize how our understanding of language acquisition can be at
best partial if we cannot comprehend how verbs are learned.  This volume
enters the relatively uncharted waters of early verb learning, focusing on
the universal, conceptual foundations for verb learning, and how these
foundations intersect with the burgeoning language system. 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition
                     Psycholinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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