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The Acquisition of Verbs and their Grammar:

The Effect of Particular Languages

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Editors:
  1. Natalia Gagarina

    1. Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Germany

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  2. Insa Gulzow

    1. Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Germany

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  • Offers empirical evidence from a large variety of languages
  • The empirical evidence is discussed without subscribing to one of the two main theoretical perspectives
  • Topics discussed include: the language effect, the impact of frequency on the acquisition of verbs

Part of the book series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics (SITP, volume 33)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Language-specific impact on the acquisition of Hebrew

    1. Introduction

      • Natalia Gagarina, Insa Gulzow
      Pages 1-11

    2. Acquisition of verb argument structure from a developmental perspective: Evidence from Child Hebrew

      • Sigal Uziel-Karl
      Pages 15-44

    3. Subject use and the acquisition of verbal agreement in Hebrew

      • Sharon Armon-Lotem
      Pages 45-67

  3. Language-specific variation in the development of predication and verb semantics

    1. Strategies in the L1-acquisition of predication: The copula construction in German and Croatian

      • Christine Czinglar, Antigone Katicic, Katharina Kčhler, Chris Schaner-Wolles
      Pages 71-104

    2. Why not all verbs are learned equally: The Intransitive Verb Bias in Japanese

      • Natsuko Tsujimura
      Pages 105-122

  4. Stages in the development of verb grammar and the role of semantic bootstrapping

    1. Dynamic event words, motion events and the transition to verb meanings

      • Ellen Herr-Israel, Lorraine Mccune
      Pages 125-149

    2. The early stages of verb acquisition in German, Spanish and English

      • David Ingram, Anne Welti, Christine Priem
      Pages 151-171

    3. Finiteness in children and adults learning Dutch

      • Peter Jordens, Christine Dimroth
      Pages 173-198

  5. Language-specific variation and the role of frequency

    1. The acquisition of voice morphology in Jakarta Indonesian

      • David Gil
      Pages 201-227

    2. Analytical and synthetic verb constructions in Russian and English child language

      • Natalia Gagarina, Insa Gulzow
      Pages 229-259

  6. Language-specific and learner-specific peculiarities in the development of verbs and their grammar

    1. The acquisition of verbal inflection in Estonian: Two Case Studies

      • Marilyn May Vihman, Maigi Vija
      Pages 263-295

    2. Grammatical role of French first verbs

      • Claire Martinot
      Pages 297-318

    3. Speaker and hearer reference in Russian speaking children

      • Dorota Kiebzak-Mandera
      Pages 319-344

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 345-350
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language-specific competence within the acquisitional process. Together with the focus on acquisition of the verb and its grammar research in this domain provides a fruitful basis for discussion. The maturation model of language acquisition assumes that UG becomes the language specific grammar over time and that UG is entirely available only up until the time when the native language has been completely acquired (cf. Atkinson 1992, Wexler 1999). Constructivist models that may also be opposed to theories of UG alongside with the usage- based approaches m- tioned above mostly elaborate on the early acquisition of spatial relations (e. g. Bowerman and Choi 2001, Sinha et al. 1999); however, two main hy- theses of this approach – a holistic view of universal spatial cognition and the language specific acquisition hypothesis are beyond the main scope – of this book. The book presents original contributions based on analyses of naturalistic data from eleven languages: Croatian, Dutch, English, Estonian, French, German, Hebrew, Jakarta Indonesian, Japanese, Russian and Spanish. Three of the contributions make cross-linguistic comparisons – between English and Russian; English, German and Spanish; and German, Croatian and English. All papers in the volume investigate first language acquisition and one paper studies both first and second language acquisition.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Germany

    Natalia Gagarina, Insa Gulzow

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