First Verbs: A Case Study of Early Grammatical Development

by Michael Tomasello

2021-01-01 02:27:17

First Verbs is a detailed diary study of one child''s earliest language development during her second year of life. Using a Cognitive Linguistics framework, the author focuses on how his daughter acquired her first verbs, and the role verbs played i... Read more
First Verbs is a detailed diary study of one child''s earliest language development during her second year of life. Using a Cognitive Linguistics framework, the author focuses on how his daughter acquired her first verbs, and the role verbs played in her early grammatical development. The author argues that many of a child''s first grammatical structures are tied to individual verbs, and that earliest language is based on general cognitive and social-cognitive processes, especially event structures and cultural learning. Less

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File size8.94 X 5.94 X 0.87 in
Print pages384
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication date December 14, 2006
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780521034517
Michael Tomasello is Codirector of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. He is the author of The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition and Constructing a Language: A Usage-Bas...

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