Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs a case study of German child language
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Berlin
Mouton de Gruyter
2002
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| Schriftenreihe: | Studies on language acquisition
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-225) and indexes ""Chapter 1. Introduction""; ""1. What does it take to learn the meaning of a verb?""; ""1.1. Why learning the meaning of verbs is difficult""; ""1.2. Why learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs should be easy, but it isn't â€? previewing the paradox""; ""2. Goals and organization of this book""; ""Chapter 2. A paradox: Learning the meaning of change-of-state verbs should be easy, but it isn't""; ""1. Children are sensitive to state changes from early on""; ""2. The learning problem: Children neglect the endstate in interpreting change-of-state verbs"" ""2.1. Evidence for childrenâ€?s neglect of the endstate""""2.2. Why would children neglect the endstate?""; ""2.3. How to test the scope of the neglect of endstate: The Transparent Endstate Hypothesis""; ""3. Conclusion""; ""Chapter 3. Is the learning problem due to mapping problems? Testing the Transparent Endstate Hypothesis""; ""1. How causal state changes are lexicalized in German""; ""2. Experiment 1: Transparent endstates (Type: wachmachen â€?awake-makeâ€?)""; ""2.1. Method""; ""2.2. Experimental predictions""; ""2.3. Results""; ""2.4. A tree-based modeling analysis of the data"" ""2.5. Discussion""""3. Experiment 2: Transparent endstates (Type: wachklingeln â€?awake-ringâ€?)""; ""3.1. Method""; ""3.2. Experimental predictions""; ""3.3. Results""; ""3.4. Discussion""; ""4. Experiment 3: Transparent endstates made salient (Type: wachmachen â€?awake-makeâ€?)""; ""4.1. Method""; ""4.2. Experimental predictions""; ""4.3. Results""; ""4.4. A tree-based modeling analysis of the data""; ""4.5. Discussion""; ""5. General Discussion""; ""6. Conclusion""; ""Chapter 4. A subtle learning problem: The Weak Endstate""; ""1. The resolution of the paradox?"" ""1.1. Characterizing childrenâ€?s interpretation of change-of-state verbs: the Weak Endstate""""1.2. â€Weakâ€? endstates in the adult language""; ""1.3. Change-of-state verbs in a broader crosslinguistic perspective""; ""1.4. The learning problem is more subtle than we thought""; ""2. How does the child correct inappropriate Weak Endstate interpretations?""; ""2.1. The Syntactic Bootstrapping Hypothesis""; ""2.2. A related proposal: Morphological Bootstrapping""; ""2.3. The Semantic Structure Hypothesis Testing Hypothesis""; ""3. Conclusion"" ""Chapter 5. Modifiers as cues to verb meaning""""1. How could the learner use modifiers as cues to verb meaning?""; ""1.1. What do modifiers do?""; ""1.2. The Adverbial Modification Cue Hypothesis""; ""2. A candidate solution to the Weak Endstate problem: wieder â€?againâ€?""; ""2.1. The properties of again""; ""2.2. Restitutive again as an Adverbial Modification Cue""; ""3. Do children have knowledge of restitutive wieder â€?againâ€?, and do caretakers use it in their speech?""; ""3.1. Evidence from previous studies""; ""3.2. A CHILDES search"" |
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| Beschreibung: | viii, 233 pages |
| ISBN: | 9783110907988 3110907984 3110173042 9783110173048 |