行為と言葉：子供はどのように動詞を覚えるか Action Meets Word : How children learn verbs

Hirsh-Pasek, Kathryn A./ Golinkoff, Roberta M.

Oxford University Press Inc（2006/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 608 p.／サイズ 58 illus.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780195170009
• DDC分類 401.93

基本説明

"Verb learning remains one of the most enduring puzzles of language learning. This dazzling collection is jam-packed with the latest ideas, evidence, and debates on verb-learning in children, from leading researchers. The result is a must-read volume: lively, provocative, and deeply satisfying."--Susan A. Gelman, Frederick G.L. Huetwell Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan.

Full Description

Words are the building blocks of language. An understanding of how words are learned is thus central to any theory of language acquisition. Although there has been a surge in our understanding of children's vocabulary growth, theories of word learning focus primarily on object nouns. Word learning theories must explain not only the learning of object nouns, but also the learning of other, major classes of words - verbs and adjectives. Verbs form the hub of the sentence because they determine the sentence's argument structure. Researchers throughout the world recognize how our understanding of language acquisition can be at best partial if we cannot comprehend how verbs are learned. This volume enters the relatively uncharted waters of early verb learning, focusing on the universal, conceptual foundations for verb learning, and how these foundations intersect with the burgeoning language system.

Contents

PART I PREREQUISITES TO VERB LEARNING: FINDING THE VERB; PART II PREREQUISITES TO VERB LEARNING: FINDING ACTIONS IN EVENTS; PART III WHEN ACTION MEETS WORD: CHILDREN LEARN THEIR FIRST VERBS; PART VI HOW LANGUAGE INFLUENCES VERB LEARNING: CROSS-LINGUISTIC EVIDENCE