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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452840603321

Titolo

Lexical bootstrapping [[electronic resource] ] : the role of lexis and semantics in child language development / / [edited] by Dagmar Bittner, Nadja Ruhlig

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, : De Gruyter Mouton, is a Division of Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co, KG, 2013

ISBN

3-11-030869-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (276 p.)

Collana

Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] ; ; 50

Cognitive linguistics research, , 1861-4132 ; ; 50

Altri autori (Persone)

BittnerDagmar

RuhligNadja

Disciplina

401/.4

Soggetti

Language awareness in children

Children - Language

Lexicology

Semantics

Verbal ability in children

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Emergence and applications of the Lexical Bootstrapping Hypothesis / Ruhlig, Nadja / Bittner, Dagmar -- Pre-language cognition, motion event semantics, and the transition from single words to first sentences / McCune, Lorraine / Herr-Israel, Ellen -- Bootstrapping and the acquisition of Mandarin Chinese: A natural semantic metalanguage perspective / Tien, Adrian -- The Lexical Bootstrapping Hypothesis and conventionality: a crosslinguistic study on verb acquisition by Chinese Mandarin- and Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children / Parente, Maria-Alice / Villavicencio, Aline / Siqueira, Maity / Chen, Ping / Tonietto, Lauren -- Lexical acquisition through acquisition order / Sassoon, Galit Weidman -- Lexicon-grammar continuity in Turkish children's language growth / Altınkamış Turkay, Feyza N. -- The interrelation between lexical and grammatical abilities in early language acquisition / Kauschke,



Christina -- Continuity of lexical, grammatical, phonetic and phonological development in German late talkers - A longitudinal study / Schlesiger, Claudia -- Function words and the bootstrapping of grammar in normally developing and impaired L1-acquisition of German / Bittner, Dagmar / Siegmüller, Julia -- The role of the lexicon in the development of the language processor / Kidd, Evan / Bavin, Edith L. / Brandt, Silke -- Grammar from the lexicon: Evidence from neural network simulations of language acquisition / Howell, Steve R. / Becker, Suzanna -- List of contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

The internal bootstrapps for establishing the grammatical system of a human language build an essential topic in language acquisition research. The discussion of the last 20 years came up with the Lexical Bootstrapping Hypothesis which assigns lexical development the role of the central bootstrapping process. The volume presents work from different theoretical perspectives evaluating the strength and weaknesses of this hypothesis.