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
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
