29.3320, Books: Ten Lectures on Language, Cognition and Language Aquisition: Bowerman

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Subject: 29.3320, Books: Ten Lectures on Language, Cognition and Language Aquisition: Bowerman

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Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2018 16:55:09
From: Maarten Frieswijk [frieswijk at brill.com]
Subject: Ten Lectures on Language, Cognition and Language Aquisition: Bowerman

 


Title: Ten Lectures on Language, Cognition and Language Aquisition 
Series Title: Dinstinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Brill
	   http://www.brill.com
	

Book URL: https://brill.com/abstract/title/35672 


Author: Melissa Bowerman

Electronic: ISBN:  9789004362826 Pages: 249 Price: Europe EURO 90
Hardback: ISBN:  9789004353022 Pages: 249 Price: Europe EURO 99


Abstract:

In her Beijing lectures, Melissa Bowerman presents a lucid introduction and
account of her research on a range of topics: how children acquire the
semantics of spatial terms, how they construct categories and acquire the
semantics of nouns, and how they master the semantics of verbs in early
language acquisition. Bowerman also covers the learning of argument structure
and expressions of end-state, with special attention to the adult speech that
guides children, and hence also the role of typology in acquisition; how
cross-linguistic variation affects, for example, how speakers represent
‘cutting’ and ‘breaking’ in different languages, and the relation of the
Whorfian Hypothesis to cross-linguistic variations in the semantics of
languages. Bowerman’s over-riding concern throughout is with how children come
to master the first language being spoken to them by their parents and
caregivers.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science


Written In: English  (eng)

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