Summary of references on organization of verbs in mental lexicon

Tue Jan 25 15:57:57 UTC 2000

may be you should try Damasio´s work. LAter on I´ll give you some of his papers
references. Anyway they don´t tell a lot of how they are organized.
Your´s MAriana

Rachel Chung wrote:

> Dear Info-Childes readers,
>
> First of all I must thank all of you who responded to my query about
> references on the organization of verbs in mental lexicon. You have been
> of great help. However, I also realize that my question was not specific
> enough so let me restate the question here, along with a complete list of
> references.
>
> I'm interested in a wide range of questions about verbs, but I
> especially have problems in finding literature about the overall
> organization of the verb lexicon, specifically, whether it's better
> characterized as hierarchy or matrix. I know there've been a number of
> papers on this, but they are all from at least ten years ago. Is there any
> more up-to-date work?
>
> So far I've found Miller and Fellbaum's paper in the 1991 special issue of
> Cognition to be the most useful and directly relevant to my research
> question, (Thanks to Pinker) although I still have a long reading list to
> finish!
>
> Below is a complete list of references, kindly provided by Ann Dowker,
> Lois Bloom, Steve Pinker, and Ping Li.
>
> Best,
> Rachel
>
> From: Ann Dowker <ann.dowker at psy.ox.ac.uk>
>
> M. Tomasello and W.E. Merriman: Beyond Names for Things: Young Children's
> Acquisition of Verbs; Erlbaum, 1995
>
> R.M. Golinkoff, K. Hirsch-Pasek and R. Nandakumar: Lexical principles may
> underlie the learning of verbs; Child Development, 1996, 67, 3101-3119.
>
> From: Lois Bloom <lmb32 at columbia.edu>
>
> 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).
>
> From: "Jose G. Centeno" <frontier2 at mindspring.com>
> Here are some references on lexical organization & processing for verbs in
> adult speakers:
>
> Centeno, J. G. (1996). Use of verb inflections in the oral expression of
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>
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>
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>
> Obler, L. K., Harris, K., Meth, M., Centeno, J. G., & Matthews, P.(1999).
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>
> From: Steven Pinker <spinker at mediaone.net>
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>
> Levin, B. & Pinker, S. (Eds.). 1991. Lexical and conceptual semantics.
> (Special edition of Cognition)
>
> From: Ping Li <pli at richmond.edu>
> Rachel, I had a grant that contained the following references and you might
> be able to find some relevant work for you there. Let me know if this helps.
>
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