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Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs : A case study of German child language / Angelika Wittek.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] ; 17Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2011]Copyright date: ©2002Edition: Reprint 2011Description: 1 online resource (233 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110173048
  • 9783110907988
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 401/.93
LOC classification:
  • P118 .W55 2002
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
i-iv -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. A paradox: Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs should be easy, but it isn’t -- Chapter 3. Is the learning problem due to mapping problems? Testing the Transparent Endstate Hypothesis -- Chapter 4. A subtle learning problem: The Weak Endstate -- Chapter 5. Modifiers as cues to verb meaning -- Chapter 6. Testing the Adverbial Modification Cue Hypothesis -- Chapter 7. Summary: The status of the endstate in children’s semantic representations of change-of-state verbs -- Appendices -- Notes -- References -- Subject index -- Author index
Summary: Causative change-of-state verbs like 'to open', 'to fill', and 'to wake' are central to both recent theories of grammatical development and theories of lexical structure. This book focuses on how German-speaking children learn the meaning of change-of-state verbs. It offers a thorough characterization of the acquisition of German, embedded in a crosslinguistic perspective. The author provides a comprehensive review of the acquisition literature on that topic and introduces a new account as to how the meaning of these verbs can be learned. The empirical backbone of the investigation are a set of carefully designed experimental studies.

i-iv -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. A paradox: Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs should be easy, but it isn’t -- Chapter 3. Is the learning problem due to mapping problems? Testing the Transparent Endstate Hypothesis -- Chapter 4. A subtle learning problem: The Weak Endstate -- Chapter 5. Modifiers as cues to verb meaning -- Chapter 6. Testing the Adverbial Modification Cue Hypothesis -- Chapter 7. Summary: The status of the endstate in children’s semantic representations of change-of-state verbs -- Appendices -- Notes -- References -- Subject index -- Author index

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Causative change-of-state verbs like 'to open', 'to fill', and 'to wake' are central to both recent theories of grammatical development and theories of lexical structure. This book focuses on how German-speaking children learn the meaning of change-of-state verbs. It offers a thorough characterization of the acquisition of German, embedded in a crosslinguistic perspective. The author provides a comprehensive review of the acquisition literature on that topic and introduces a new account as to how the meaning of these verbs can be learned. The empirical backbone of the investigation are a set of carefully designed experimental studies.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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