verb organization in lexicon

[Lois Bloom]

A succession of studies from my research lab, published between 1975 and
1989, reported the verbs children learn, and the subcategorization of
children's verbs that determines the acquisition of different linguistic
structures for sentence procedures.

These papers, listed below, were reprinted in the volume Bloom, L. (1991).
Language development from two to three. New York: Cambridge University
Press.


Bloom, L., Lightbown, P., & Hood, L. (1975). Structure and variation in
child language. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child
Development, 40 (Serial No. 160).

Bloom, L., Miller, P., & Hood, L. (1975). Variation and reduction as
aspects of competence in child language. In A. Pick (Ed.), Minnesota
symposia on child psychology (Vol. 9, pp. 3-55). Minneapolis MN:
University of Minnesota Press.

Bloom, L., Lifter, K., & Hafitz, J. (1980). The semantics of verbs and the
development of verb inflections in child language. Language, 56, 386-412.

Bloom, L., Merkin, S., & Wootten, J. (1982). Wh-questions: Linguistic
factors that contribute to the sequence of acquisition. Child Development,
53, 1084-1092.

Bloom, L., Tackeff, J., & Lahey, M. (1984). Learning to in complement
constructions. Journal of Child Language, 11, 391-406.

Bloom, L., Rispoli, M., Gartner, B., & Hafitz, J. (1989). Acquisition of
complementation. Journal of Child Language, 16, 101-120.


See also the summary and taxonomy of verbs from of many of these studies
in Bloom, L. (1981). The importance of language for language development:
Linguistic determinism in the 1980s. In H. Winitz (Ed.), Native language
and foreign language acquisition.  Annals of the New York Academy of
Sciences (Vol. 379, pp. 160-171).

In addition, how verbs contribute to contingency in early child
discourse was reported in Bloom, L., Rocissano, L., & Hood,
L. (1976). Adult-child discourse: Developmental interaction between
information processing and linguistic knowledge. Cognitive Psychology, 8,
521-551 (also in Bloom, 1991).

--Lois Bloom


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Lois Bloom, Ph.D.
Edward Lee Thorndike Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Education
Teachers College, Columbia University
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