Lexical Bootstrapping
The Role of Lexis and Semantics in Child Language Development
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 2013
VI, 270 pages
978-3-11-030869-3 (ISBN)
Description
The internal bootstrapps for establishing the grammatical system of a human language build an essential topic in language acquisition research. The discussion of the last 20 years came up with the Lexical Bootstrapping Hypothesis which assigns lexical development the role of the central bootstrapping process. The volume presents work from different theoretical perspectives evaluating the strength and weaknesses of this hypothesis.
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Dagmar Bittner | Nadja Ruhlig
Lexical Bootstrapping
The Role of Lexis and Semantics in Child Language Development
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04/2013
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Dagmar Bittner and Nadja Ruhlig, Centre for General Linguistics, Berlin, Germany.
Content
1 - Introduction: Emergence and applications of the Lexical Bootstrapping Hypothesis [Seite 7]
2 - Pre-language cognition, motion event semantics, and the transition from single words to first sentences [Seite 17]
3 - Bootstrapping and the acquisition of MandarinChinese: A natural semantic metalanguage Perspective [Seite 45]
4 - Lexical Bootstrapping Hypothesis and conventionality: a crosslinguistic study on verb acquisition by Chinese Mandarin- and Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children [Seite 79]
5 - Lexical acquisition through acquisition order [Seite 105]
6 - Lexicon-grammar continuity in Turkish children's language growth [Seite 129]
7 - The interrelation between lexical and grammatical abilities in early language acquisition [Seite 149]
8 - Continuity of lexical, grammatical, phonetic and phonological development in German late talkers - A longitudinal study [Seite 171]
9 - Function words and the bootstrapping of grammar in normally developing and impaired L1 -acquisition of German [Seite 193]
10 - The role of the lexicon in the development of the language processor [Seite 223]
11 - Grammar from the lexicon: Evidence from neural network simulations of language acquisition [Seite 251]
12 - List of contributors [Seite 271]
13 - Index [Seite 274]
2 - Pre-language cognition, motion event semantics, and the transition from single words to first sentences [Seite 17]
3 - Bootstrapping and the acquisition of MandarinChinese: A natural semantic metalanguage Perspective [Seite 45]
4 - Lexical Bootstrapping Hypothesis and conventionality: a crosslinguistic study on verb acquisition by Chinese Mandarin- and Brazilian Portuguese-speaking children [Seite 79]
5 - Lexical acquisition through acquisition order [Seite 105]
6 - Lexicon-grammar continuity in Turkish children's language growth [Seite 129]
7 - The interrelation between lexical and grammatical abilities in early language acquisition [Seite 149]
8 - Continuity of lexical, grammatical, phonetic and phonological development in German late talkers - A longitudinal study [Seite 171]
9 - Function words and the bootstrapping of grammar in normally developing and impaired L1 -acquisition of German [Seite 193]
10 - The role of the lexicon in the development of the language processor [Seite 223]
11 - Grammar from the lexicon: Evidence from neural network simulations of language acquisition [Seite 251]
12 - List of contributors [Seite 271]
13 - Index [Seite 274]
