First Verbs - A Case Study of Early Grammatical Development (Paperback, New ed)

During the second year of his daughter's life, Michael Tomasello kept a detailed diary of her language, creating a rich database. He made a careful study of how she acquired her first verbs and analysed the role that verbs played in her early grammatical development. Using a Cognitive Linguistics framework, the author argues persuasively that the child's earliest grammatical organization is verb-specific (the Verb Island hypothesis). He argues further that early language is acquired by means of very general cognitive and social-cognitive processes, especially event structures and cultural learning. The richness of the database and the analytical tools used make First Verbs a particularly useful and important book for developmental psychologists, linguists, language development researchers and speech pathologists.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2006
First published:	1992
Authors:	Michael Tomasello
Dimensions:	227 x 151 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	384
Edition:	New ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-03451-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Language & linguistics > Philosophy of language Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Child & developmental psychology
LSN:	0-521-03451-5
Barcode:	9780521034517

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