Action meets word : how children learn verbs /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2006.
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=168957 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Progress on the verb learning front / Roberta Michnick Golinkoff and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
- Finding the verbs : distributional cues to categories available to young learners / Toben H. Mintz
- Finding verb forms within the continuous speech stream / Thierry Nazzi and Derek Houston
- Discovering verbs through multiple-cue integration / Morten H. Christiansen and Padraic Monaghan
- Actions organize the infant's world / Jean M. Mandler
- Conceptual foundations for verb learning : celebrating the event / Rachel Pulverman [and others]
- Precursors to verb learning : infants' understanding of motion events / Marianella Casasola, Jui Bhagwat, and Kim T. Ferguson
- Preverbal spatial cognition and language-specific input : categories of containment and support / Soonja Choi
- The roots of verbs in prelinguistic action knowledge / Jennifer Sootsman Buresh, Amanda Woodward, and Camille W. Brune
- When is a grasp a grasp? Characterizing some basic components of human action processing / Jeffrey T. Loucks and Dare Baldwin
- Work, intention, and action : a two-tiered model of action word learning / Diane Poulin-Dubois and James N. Forbes
- Verbs, actions, and intentions / Douglas A. Behrend and Jason Scofield
- Are nouns easier to learn than verbs? Three experimental studies / Jane B. Childers and Michael Tomasello
- Verbs at the very beginning : parallels between comprehension and input / Letitia R Naigles and Erika Hoff
- A unified theory of word learning : putting verb acquisition in context / Mandy J. Maguire, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff
- Who's the subject? Sentence strucutre and verb meaning / Cynthia Fisher and Hyun-joo Song
- Verb learning as a probe into children's grammars / Jeffrey Lidz
- Revisiting the noun-verb debate : a cross linguistic comparison of novel noun and verb learning in English-, Japanese-, and Chinese-speaking children / Mutsumi Imai [and others]
- But are they really verbs? Chinese words for action / Twila Tardif
- Influences of object knowledge on the acquisition of verbs in English and Japanese / Alan W. Kersten, Linda B. Smith, and Hanako Yoshida
- East and west : a role for culture in the acquitision of nouns and verbs / Tracy A. Lavin, D. Geoffrey Hall, and Sandra R. Waxman
- Why verbs are hard to learn / Dedre Gentner.