Flexibility in early verb use : evidence from a multiple-N diary study /

Naigles, Letitia R,

Flexibility in early verb use : evidence from a multiple-N diary study / [print] Letitia R. Naigles, Erika Hoff, and Donna Vear ; with commentary by Michael Tomasello ... [and others. - Boston, Massachusetts : Wiley-Blackwell, (c)2009. - viii, 143 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. - Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development ; v. 74, no. 2 . - Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development ; v. 74, no. 2. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Presenting the diary method -- A general description of early verb growth and use -- Pragmatic and semantic flexibility in early verb use -- Productivity and grammatical flexibility in early verb use -- Differences in early verb growth and use as a function of developmental period, child, and verb -- General discussion -- Commentary: Flexibility in the semantics and syntax of children's early verb use Learning from infants' first verbs Early verb learners: creative or not? / Jane B. Childers. Michael Tomasello and Silke Brandt -- Sandra R. Waxman --



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Language acquisition.
Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb.
Cognitive grammar.

P118.T655.F549 2009