Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs: a case study of German child language
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Main Author: Wittek, Angelika (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ;New York Mouton de Gruyter 2002
Series:Studies on language acquisition 17
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Online Access:DE-824
DE-706
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-225) and indexes
Biographical note: Angelika Wittek is Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Main description: 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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 233 p)
ISBN:3110173042
9783110173048
9783110907988

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