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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828574203321

Titolo

Semantics and morphology of early adjectives in first language acquisition / / edited by Elena Tribushinina, Maria D. Voeikova and Sabrina Noccetti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : , : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4438-8326-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (494 p.)

Disciplina

401.93

Soggetti

Language acquisition

Grammar, Comparative and general - Adjective

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 at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is about how toddlers learn their first adjectives, such as, for example, red, big and tasty. Adjectives denote properties and enter child vocabularies later than words for objects (such as apple and tree) and actions (such as eat and run), probably due to lower frequencies in parental speech and greater conceptual complexity. Adjective acquisition has received relatively little attention in child language research. Furthermore, cross-linguistic studies of adjective learning are virtually non-existent. This book represents the first systematic analysis of how children learning typolo