Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs : a case study of German child language / / by Angelika Wittek
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| Autore: |
Wittek Angelika <1965->
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| Titolo: |
Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs : a case study of German child language / / by Angelika Wittek
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| Pubblicazione: | Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, 2002 |
| Edizione: | Reprint 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 401/.93 |
| Soggetto topico: | Language acquisition |
| Grammar, Comparative and general - Verb | |
| German language - Acquisition | |
| Classificazione: | ER 920 |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-225) and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Front matter -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. A paradox: Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs should be easy, but it isn't -- Chapter 3. Is the learning problem due to mapping problems? Testing the Transparent Endstate Hypothesis -- Chapter 4. A subtle learning problem: The Weak Endstate -- Chapter 5. Modifiers as cues to verb meaning -- Chapter 6. Testing the Adverbial Modification Cue Hypothesis -- Chapter 7. Summary: The status of the endstate in children's semantic representations of change-of-state verbs -- Appendices -- Notes -- References -- Subject index -- Author index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Causative change-of-state verbs like 'to open', 'to fill', and 'to wake' are central to both recent theories of grammatical development and theories of lexical structure. This book focuses on how German-speaking children learn the meaning of change-of-state verbs. It offers a thorough characterization of the acquisition of German, embedded in a crosslinguistic perspective. The author provides a comprehensive review of the acquisition literature on that topic and introduces a new account as to how the meaning of these verbs can be learned. The empirical backbone of the investigation are a set of carefully designed experimental studies. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs |
| ISBN: | 3-11-090798-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809759203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]