First Verbs: A Case Study of Early Grammatical Development

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.

Author: Michael Tomasello
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 12/14/2006
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.24lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.85d
ISBN: 9780521034517

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