Overview

Although there has been a surge in our understanding of children's vocabulary growth, theories of word learning lack a primary focus on verbs and adjectives. Researchers throughout the world recognize how our understanding of language acquisition can be at best partial if we cannot comprehend how verbs are learned. This volume represents a proliferation of research on the frontier of early verb learning, enhancing our understanding of the building blocks of language and considering new ways to assess key aspects of language growth.

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Author:   Kathryn A. Hirsh-Pasek (Professor of Psychology, Professor of Psychology, Temple University, USA) ,  Roberta M. Golinkoff (Rodney Sharp Professor, School of Education, Rodney Sharp Professor, School of Education, University of Delaware, USA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.90cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 16.00cm
Weight:   0.964kg
ISBN:  

9780195170009

ISBN 10:   0195170008
Pages:   608
Publication Date:   27 April 2006
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I. Prerequisites to verb learning: Finding the verb 1: Toby Mintz: Finding the verbs: Distributional cues available to young learners 2: Thierry Nazzi & Derek Houston: Finding verb forms within the continuous speech stream 3: Morten H. Christiansen & Padraic Monaghan: Discovering verbs through multiple-cue integration II. Prequisites to verb learning: Finding actions in events 4: Jean Mandler: Actions organize the infant's world 5: Rachel Pulverman, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta M. Golinkoff, Shannon Pruden, & Sara J. Salkind: Conceptual foundations for verb learning: Celebrating the event 6: Marianella Cassassola, Jui Bhagwat & Kim T. Ferguson: Precursors to verb learning: Infants' understanding of motion events 7: Soonja Choi: Preverbal spatial cognition and language-specific input: Categories of containment and support 8: Jennifer Sootsman Buresh, Amanda Woodward, & Camille Brune: The roots of verbs: Prelinguistic action knowledge 9: Jeffrey Loucks & Dare Baldwin, University of Washington: When is a grasp a grasp? 10: Diane Poulin-Dubois & James Forbes: Word, intention, and action: A two-tiered model of action word learning 11: Douglas A. Behrend & Jason M. Scofield: Verbs, actions, and intentions III. When action meets word: Children learn their first verbs 12: Jane B. Childers & Michael Tomasello: Are nouns easier to learn than verbs? Three experimental studies 13: Letitia Naigles & Erika Hoff: Verbs at the beginning: Parallels between comprehension and input 14: Mandy Maguire, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek & Roberta Golinkoff: A unified theory of word learning: Putting verb acquisition in context 15: Cynthia Fisher & Hyun-joo Song: Who's the subject? Sentence structure and verb meaning IV. How language influences verb learning: Cross-linguistic evidence 16: Jeff Lidz: Verb-learning as a probe into children's grammars 17: Mutsumi Imai, Etsuko Haryo, Hiroyuki Okada, Li Lianjing, & Jun Shigematsu: Revisiting the noun-verb debate: A crosslinguistic comparison of novel noun and verb learning in English-, Japanese- and Chinese-speaking children 18: Twila Tardif: But are they really verbs?: Chinese words for action 19: Alan W. Kersten, Linda B. Smith, & Hanako Yoshida: Influences of object knowledge on the acquisition of verbs in English and Japanese 20: Tracy Lavin & D. Geoffrey Hall, & Sandra R. Waxman: East and west: A role for culture in the acquisition of nouns and verbs 21: Dedre Gentner: Why verbs are hard to learn V. What have we learned about verb learning? 22: Lila Gleitman:

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...an impressive compilation of up-to-the-minutes ideas, research and theories from the leading thinkers in the field of verb acquisition research...an essential handbook for all researchers and post-graduate students...[and] those taking undergraduate or A-level courses. * Psychology Teaching Review *

...an impressive compilation of up-to-the-minutes ideas, research and theories from the leading thinkers in the field of verb acquisition research...an essential handbook for all researchers and post-graduate students...[and] those taking undergraduate or A-level courses. Psychology Teaching Review

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Kathy Hirsh-Pasek is Stanley and Deborah Lefkowitz Professor of Psychology and Director of the Infant Language Laboratory at Temple University. Roberta Michnick Golinkoff is H. Rodney Sharp Professor in the School of Education and Departments of Psychology and Linguistics and Cognitive Science at the University of Delaware

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